[Gllug] Workshop at the next GLLUG meeting.

[David Irvine]

On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 10:32, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On 18/03/02, 09:08:49, Colin Murphy <SpudULike at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote 
> regarding Re: [Gllug] Workshop at the next GLLUG meeting.:
> 
> 
> > On Monday 18 March 2002 12:54 am, Michael E. A. wrote:
> 
> > >
> > > How about trying to conquer MODEMS.
> > > From purchase recommendations to setup/installation.
> > >
> > > We could show users how to identify and avoid Winmodems.
> > > How to access drivers for Linmodems, etc.
> 
> > Sounds like a good topic.  The one facility we won't have access to is a
> > telephone line.  Any freekers out there able to build us a 'dummy
> > exchange' where we could connect the two telephone ports on the modem 
> back
> > to back for our example?
> 
> Winmodems seems like a very limited topic to me.  PCI modems that aren't 
> winmodems are such a rare event that a talk on how to spot or avoid 
> winmodems would either be really simple or really abstruse.  And 
> non-winmodems (external modems and most ISA ones) are trivial to use 
> under Linux.
> 
> How about learning to identify and configure network cards?  There's more 
> scope there and I'd expect the uni machines to have nics in them.
> 

I agree, there are a lot of rebranded cards on the market, and a small
number of chipsets.  Identifying which driver to use can be confusing at
times for beginners especially if your installation system doesnt detect
the correct card etc.  

D



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