[techtalk] For the not so techie Linux users

[JoAnn Elliott]

sorry, what I have is a builtin modem. Not a pcmcia card but in the event I
do get ont of those, I am saving this very nice set of instruction, thanks!

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From: owner-techtalk at linuxchix.org
[mailto:owner-techtalk at linuxchix.org]On Behalf Of Beverly Guillermo
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 10:59 PM
To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
Subject: RE: [techtalk] For the not so techie Linux users


> Hello, and thank-you for writing this. I am stashing it for later use. my
> laptop has a modem, not sure it is winmodem or not, it says LT modem and I
> think that may be Lucent Technologies. but when I am ready I will try it.
>
> JoAnn

On laptops, unless your modem is external, you're probably using
a pcmcia card.  For this, you're going to have to use PCMCIA services
or "PC Card" support package.  Almost all the distributions have
it and when setting up a laptop to run linux, it should automatically
install it.  Basically, the package contains "device drivers" for
every kind of pc card such as modems, flash memory, network cards,
and etc.  It also has several programs to make sure the cards are
<clip>
For a list of supported cards in the current "stable" version
of the pcmcia-cs package:

http://hyper.stanford.edu/~dhinds/pcmcia/ftp/SUPPORTED.CARDS

There's a great deal of information about the pcmcia-cs package that
I simply cannot write down all here.  I "recommend" reading the
Linux-PCMCIA HOWTO and if you have any questions about the text,
just ask.

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