[Nottingham] Re: Mandrake 10, xp dual boot, designing an installation....

[David Aldred]

In message <20040721204937.0d347211.james.gibbon at virgin.net>, James 
Gibbon <james.gibbon at virgin.net> writes:
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>
>I've used the HCF driver 'hcfpcimodem' with kernel 2.4, and it works 
>great, but I'm told it won't play nicely with 2.6.

As you may have gathered, I'm not yet properly started on the change on 
the main PC; I think I've found a version of the hcfpcimodem driver 
compiled for the 2.6.3-7mdk kernel at

http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hcf/full/downloads-mdk-x86.php

Worth a try!

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>>         - and on a similar (to some extent) question, is there something
>> which tells me whether there is a live internet connection on a machine
>> which is dialling up?  I'd like to automate news collection using cron
>> and fetchnews, running fetchnews every (say) fifteen minutes *if* there
>> is a live connection, but not otherwise.
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>If I understand you correctly, something like
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>netstat -i | grep ppp > /dev/null
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>.. and check the error code.

This needs to be on the machine with the dial-up modem running, 
presumably, (and that's the obvious place to hold the newsbase anyway), 
so again I'll have to try it at a later stage!

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