Cautious possible new member/user

[James Takac]

On Monday 10 December 2007 12:43:06 Tom Bamford wrote:
> Stephen Constantinou wrote:
> > 8) Every version of Mandrake/Mandriva I have ever had displys an error
> > message during boot that slamer (or something similar) could not be
> > found/loaded.  This I think relates to the soft modem.  Does Ubunto
> > support soft modems?  Please say yes!
> >
> > 9) Will my PCMCIA external CDROM be supported?
>
> As you will know soft-modems are notoriously crap, however on my IBM
> laptop Ubuntu 7.10 detected and loaded the appropriate driver/firmware
> for the built in Intel soft modem. It maps /dev/modem to the correct
> device and I've used it successfully, though not for long so I don't
> know how stable or reliable it is.
>
> I have a Freecom Traveller 2 which works over USB but not over PCMCIA.
> I've also got a 16-bit PCMCIA IDE controller which doesn't work in
> Ubuntu. Hopefully you'll have better luck.
>
> Regards,
> Tom



Hi Guys

Might I suggest booting from the live cd and seeing how that handles the 
hardware in question? imho it should give some indication as to what will 
work and what wont

James