Modem query.

[R.A.Fletcher <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

Hi, I just installed my first linux distro last week and want a litle
advice for installing my modem. I run Win98 (ugh) and SuSE 6.1, which
was installed without problems. Although when I come out of KDE I get
KDE:Wrong Chracterset! warnings (or something like that) but this
is not the immediate problem.

The Modem is internal, and to get it to work on Win98 I had to set it
to Plug And Play via a jumper, as when I tried to specify which Com
Port to use (and all the rest of it) It didnt work.

So the question is, would I be better trying to get the modem to work
as a Plug and Play device, perhaps by reading the Plug and PLay
HOWTO, or setting the COM Port and DMA and IRQ witht he jumpers and
reading the relevant HOWTO for that, noting that it may not then work
with my Win98. Perhaps losing Internet capabilities on my computer
altogether. Even if just for a limited time.

Any comments would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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