No, I'm still not a geek.

[karen2205]

I've created a new partition in my hard drive and installed Debian onto it. Root obviously exists and I exist as a separate user. Beyond that I've not been able to get it to do a lot. First task is persuading it to dial the internet (http://www.aboutdebian.com/modems.htm) and I'm failing at the first hurdle ie. it can't find the modem to dial with. According to Windows my modem is using COM3. I couldn't find any modem settings in the BIOS and I'm now slightly stuck. It doesn't recognise the command 'setserial'.

Cutting for boring stuff and huge urls

Ahh, I've now found some more settings for the modem (via the device manager)

IBM Integrated 56k modem
PCI bus 0, device 31, function 6.
Driver is CXT
I/O Range 2400 - 24FF
I/O Range 2000 - 207F
IRQ 11

According to the conversion table COM3 should = I/O 03E8 and IRQ 4

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO-1.html#ss1.8 - says watching the boot time messages to find out which port the modem is on - they go too fast for me to do that.

The chances are that it's a winmodem and I'm going to have to find drivers to make it work with linux.
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/IBM_Integrated_56K_Modem_(MDC-2) looks useful.

(http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_Debian_on_a_ThinkPad_G41) for my own reference - I have an R50e.
http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/ - giving a non-root user power to do stuff like apt-get install.

OK, have downloaded the driver, written it to CD, now to see if I can make it work.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=82801DB%2FDBL%2FDBM+%28ICH4%2FICH4-L%2FICH4-M%29&btnG=Search&meta=

(googling output from lspci)

http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin/tips/src/usbkey.html - how to use a USB key under linux