spinynorman

The Oakland Tribune speculates... :unsure:

See the ZDNet UK story. B)

The Register reports that a German court has granted an injunction for an infringement of general public licence (GPL) software.

Welcome to the board. :) As VeeDubb says, this may take a lot of time and energy, but www.linmodems.org is a good starting point.

I'm still on 9.1 and my speedtouch worked ok once I sorted the firewall and configured the speedtouch connection only. MCC initially identified an ethernet card and a winmodem as well as the speedtouch; I didn't eliminate the other options, and only the ethernet got configured. I had to reinstall to get rid of it. In this thread in the networking forum, Arthur says he used advice in Tips & Tricks to get 9.2 working; and by the end of the thread he's solved his problems with 10, possibly using one of my suggestions - he doesn't say. :unsure: Eska's thread in this Tips & Tricks search looks a likely candidate for the 9.2 solution. I'm pinning my hopes on MDK 10, as support is in the kernel. There were initial problems because they left old config files lying around, but I think they've fixed that now. If 10 doesn't do it for me, I think I may get a router - no drivers required! :)

There is also the captive project. This uses the original MS drivers through Wine style emulation. You have to have the XP drivers but they can be used on older NTFS versions too. I don't know how reliable it is, but it has been incorporated into LinuxDefender Live! CD - a BitDefender version of Knoppix.

The Register reports on an EU initiative. Let's hear it for the European Commission!

Could you describe what you did? Did anything in particular fail to work - did you get any error messages? You could try the suggestion I made in this thread. It didn't seem to help anyone there, but you never know... :unsure:

Edit the file /etc/shorewall/routestopped as root and simply write on a line of its own ppp0 If there's an entry for eth0, take it out - I'm not sure what to expect as I'm not using shorewall. :)

Try this list of servers. :)

I don't know that such a site exists, but as many of the problems are created by Mandrake trying to simplify things, this is probably as good a place as any! We're short of experts on this subject, but let me outline the situation as I understand it - I'm no expert but I do use the Speedtouch USB modem with Mandrake 9.1. Firstly, there is a problem with the firewall in 9.1, 9.2 and 10. The shorewall config files are set up to use eth0 instead of ppp0. These can be changed manually. Secondly, the mgmt.o file is missing in 9.2. This can be downloaded in the package from the Thomson site. Thirdly, support for the modem in 10 is now provided in the kernel, but there are references to 'speedtch' in /etc/modules.conf and /etc/modprobe.conf which prevent it working. There are updates to rectify this, so the future looks brighter! So - as you're using 9.2, get the driver package from http://www.speedtouchdsl.com/dvrreg_lx.htm or http://download.ethomson.com/download/speedmgmt.tar.gz and save the mgmt.o file in /usr/share/speedtouch. If you enable shorewall, amend the entry in /etc/shorewall/interfaces to read 'net ppp0'... instead of 'net eth0'...; and put 'ppp0' in /etc/shorewall/routestopped. When you set up your internet connection, your speedtouch should be detected, along with an ethernet card and a winmodem, perhaps. Select the speedtouch only. In particular, do NOT select the ethernet card, as it won't let you change your mind afterwards! Not via the GUI anyway. I don't know if this will work as I don't have 9.2, but if you give it a try, you can come back with problems as they arise! :)

If you're looking for Tux specifically, try here. :)

The high security option may well be the problem. Unless you are using your machine as a server, the standard option should be sufficient. :)

Found this bug report for drakconf. The solution given is - This seems to confirm what I said above, and may explain the firmware/module conflict you described. If you could get the updates, you probably would have fixed it! :)

Using 'info true' Can't think why true isn't installed - it's included in the coreutils package.

The analyst they quote - Rob Enderle - is a notorious troll. See this PCLinuxOnline article.

See this thread. :)

Found this on Linux Questions - Don't know if this helps, but I hope you get it working as I'd like to move up from 9.1 - with my green frog - when 10 becomes official. :)

More smoke and mirrors. See The Register.

Wishful thinking? :unsure: See The Register's story.

The Inquirer claims credit for AOL initiative. :)

PJL is HP's Printer Job Language. That's probably as much as you need to know, but there's lots of documentation at this HP website.

See the FAQ. :)

See this thread about the cds. I don't think that has anything to do with xmms. If you give more details, someone else can probably help with that - I'm still on 9.1. :) Edit: I see you've got another thread on xmms, so continue there. Welcome to the board, by the way...

I must make time to read it all, but I did like this - :D :D :D