FC2 vs FC3

[Advent Systems]

Yes, I know you can use a "real"modem with linux. I thought you were 
talking about getting your win-modem thats built into your laptop working.

Bob Randal

Daniel Villarreal wrote:

>I'd probably read up the latest reviews on FC3 at http://osnews.com and http://distrowatch.com, and try it, if I could d-l it. I have 
>updates to RHL9 (http://fedora.us I think) and Whiteboxlinux.
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>I have an external modem that works under linux.
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>On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 15:12:56 -0500
>Advent Systems <adventsystems at verizon.net> wrote:
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>>Daniel,
>>The Up-Dater that comes with FC2 is horrible. There are systems you can 
>>download to get the updates that I found to work very well, one is 
>>apt-get, the other is Yum. The only other updaters I used before were 
>>SuSE's YOU, it works well but only gave me the updates that SuSE wanted 
>>me to have. The other was mandrake's and after freshly installing a 1 
>>year old distro (9.1) it told me "system was up to date and no updates 
>>were available". So you see why I like updating FC2 much better. You 
>>have to do a little extra work but it's much better and I believe that 
>>what linux is all about. On the other end of the scale you have 
>>mswindows update where you click one button and walk away, and you can 
>>only hope what it's actually doing is good.
>>As far as getting the modem to work I can say this. I tried 3 different 
>>distros and nothing worked. I paid Linuxant $14 10 min. latter I could 
>>fire up my win-modem with any of the distros. They have gotten a bad rep 
>>because the drivers should be free but , and I agree, but on the other 
>>hand someone did do some work to make the drivers available (and they 
>>work well) so for $14 bucks, I figured that was money well spent to fix 
>>a problem that was VERY vexing to me. I would still like to get the 
>>modem working on my own (w/0 the linuxant drivers) but at that time my 
>>dialup connection was my only access to the internet (i had to download 
>>the drivers on my win2k side).
>>Just somthing to think about.
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>>Good Luck,
>>Bob Randal
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