[Lancaster] First impressions of SuSE v10.1

[Ken Hough]

Martyn Welch wrote:

>On Thursday 25 May 2006 10:13, Ken Hough wrote:
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>>Yes in principal -- if I'm free. When is the next meeting?
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>Next meeting is planned for the 5th June, Furness (Back-)Bar at Lancaster Uni. 
>Sorry, I missed the Third Tuesday this month!
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Damn it! I'm otherwise occupied on the first Monday of each month.

>>The v10.1 installation on my old laptop is very basic. Only a test
>>install really and on a spare hard drive. For most purposes  I shall
>>probably stick with v9.1 on the laptop, because that incudes the
>>'ltmodem' package for the built in Lucent modem device. Recent versions
>>do not. I shall need v10.1 to drive my telescope so a dual boot setup
>>could be the solution..
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>I thought I was going to have a similar problem with my Parents PC when I 
>moved it from Mandrake 9.2 to Ubuntu 5.10. I had bought the drivers from 
>Linuxant for their Conexant based Winmodem (glorified soundcard). I can 
>happily say that they allow you to download the latest version of the driver, 
>it seems that the activation code is tied to the card (or possibly the 
>processor) rather than a revision of the software.
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I've handled two IBM Thinkpad T21 laptops. One has a Lucent winmodem, 
the other a 3Com winmodem. Outwardly the machines appear to be 
identical. There are no Linux drivers for the 3Com device. Fortunately, 
mine is the one with the Lucent device.

Ken