Sudrien

No, it was more than an inf; the modem lit up several times as the bios was flashed.

For my modem, USR refers to the program as "Internet Call Notification"

http://www.usr.com/v92/v-icn.asp

I'll check out AT commands later :)

No, it wasn't a v.92 ready modem, and I flashed the bios from windows. Since it is not a winmodem, the modem itself should negotiate v.92 access, right?

And windows needs a "Modem on hold" utitlity for recieving calls while online (my main motivation). Do I need to install somthing as an equivelent?

I have an external USRobotics modem that says it supports v.92

I have an ISP that says it supports v.92

I am always connecting under v.90

Any ideas why? Could it be a line conditions problem?

After adding a menu entry for mplayer, associations started holding (so far)

But ROX-filer looks interesting. Thanks.

I'm using fluxbox (rpm from the contribs) for a wm, and konqueror for all my file work. I've compiled MPlayer, and want my mpeg movies to open with it by default. I go through kcontrol and set the new association, changing it from xmms. THe file opens with mplayer.

I reboot and try again, and xmms pops up.

where is this association stored that I'm not getting to?

Supermount is disabled, but the problems show up durig the kernel's partiton check, so I doubt that's the problem.

ide0 and ide1 are on irq14 and irq 15 respectively - where could I check this in linux?

The bios is set to "no pnp", and all drives are set to auto.

(and incidently, the drive has a chs of 512,12,32 - and only a hdd entry, no hdd1, hdd2, etc. )

Silly answer: It works in Windows. (But I'm trying not to)

I removed the hdd=ide-scsi, and I've got a /dev/hdd entry now!

The drive access light won't go off :(

on boot I got the following comments at the partition check and fron devfsd:

hdd: irq timeout: status = 0xd0 {Busy}

ide1: reset: success

hdd: lost interupt

This is with a disk in the drive.

It's for suse, but it is close enough.

http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/frankkru/...86/optimize.pdf

At

http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/zip/zip-1.html

is described a wierd situation with at least ATAPI zip drives; for floppy disk compatibility the partition table is HIDDEN by jumper setting.

I'm going to check the jumpers at home latter.

By the way the zip-drive mini howto says an ata drive can not use ide-floppy or ide-scsi.

N.

If you already have cds, there is another covienient way;

1. Like above, make a 3GB partition. It is ok to use fat32.

2. copy the whole directory structure from each of the CDs to the partition. If you have three CDs, make sure you do not overwrite /mandrake, there should be four RPM foldsers there.

3. Make an hd bootdisk like above.

4. boot with the disk.

THe rest is pretty similar. the convenience of never having to switch CDs when installing new packages is great.

I know about rpm --rebuild, but how do I get an athlon compile?

when it is identified at boot as hdd=ide-scsi, there is no zip entry in MCC. ide-floppy gives an entry, but I still can't get it to mount. devfs is not doing it's job, I think.

/etc/fstab

/dev/hda5 / reiserfs notail 1 1

none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0

/dev/hda3 /home/sudrien/Documents vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0

none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0

/dev/sda1 /mnt/flash vfat user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,umask=0 0 0

none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0

/dev/hda6 /mnt/rpms ext2 defaults 1 2

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0

none /proc proc defaults 0 0

/dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0

from dmesg

...

hda: Maxtor 53073H6, ATA DISK drive

hdc: SAMSUNG CD-R/RW SW-240B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100, ATA DISK drive

...

there is no fstab entry because the zip drive will not work. By the way, it is an athlon-tbird system.

1. how do I skip a "Partition check" for HDD?

2. why does an unmounted drive take up so much of the system resources?

I installed 9.0, and found that a majority of my drives were correctly detected - but not my zip drive. It is detected as an "ATA" model, which the howto says is a normal ide drive. But when I dont pass optons to the kernel, I get interupt errors and partition check errors, the system is unberably slow, and the device will not halt with the rest of the system.

by the way, i've tried devfs=nomount, but still none of the partitions will mount.