Will you recommend fedora to a newcomer?

[Jimmy Montague]

Alex F. Evonosky wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 09:23 -0500, Jimmy Montague wrote:
>
>> That's so simply because, with home users, any distro is garbage if it 
>> can't detect and use Windoze hardware. Xandros fails for me because it 
>> can't use my ($240) label printer. FC5 fails for me because it can't 
>> detect my ($150) US Robotics voice-data-fax modem.
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>
>
> Every modem I had had been Serial based, none of the Windows 
> "Winmodems", all worked fine.
>
> If you are using a "winmodem", its not FC5 fault that it could not 
> detect it, but rather the vendor will not release chip specs to anyone 
> other than M$.  There have been some reverse engineering work in the 
> realm, but if the vendor will not realase specs, then building a 
> module for it is kinda rough.  Using a Serial external modem will work 
> with no hitch.
>
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It's not a winmodem. It's a hardware modem. Xandros an other Linux 
distros detected the modem during install. It's capable of serial-port 
or USB. I had it hooked to a serial port for years, but FC5 couldn't 
find it there. Now I've hooked it to a USB port and FC% still couldn't 
find it during install. I had to use the command line to detect it. The 
OS now detects it, but still won't use it. We're working the problem on 
another thread -- "modem blues" -- which see.

Jimmy