problem fixed (was Re: M$ alteration of MY hardware)

[Eric Gilliland]

Thanks to everyone for the advice (and even the chiding on my gulibility).  
I have now fixed the problem and can get on the internet using linux. Thanks 
again, and have a good week.

Eric Gilliland

>From: JD Runyan <Jason.Runyan at nitckc.usda.gov>
>To: kclug at kclug.org
>Subject: Re: M$ alteration of MY hardware
>Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 09:28:57 -0600
>
>On Fri, Jan ,  at 07:59:43PM -0600, Eric Gilliland wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > After trying for a long time, and failing, to resolve my modem problem, 
>the
> > MandrakeExpert guy (who is, BTW, an actual Mandrake employee) tells me 
>this:
> >
> > >dakota : 11/01 05:39 : Reply received     well we have tried everything
> > >>that is usually needed to get this modem to work.
> > >
> > >i will give you some bad news though i heard that xp alters onboard
> > >>peripreal settings on hardware.if this is true this is what is 
> >happening
> > >with you and that is a problem because the modem might not >ever work 
>again
> > >
> > >in linux if what i heard is true.i am going to check >something real 
>quick
> > >though to see if the usr website has any info on >this modem and win xp
> >
>If windows xp has altered a setting, it was not done by some voodoo that
>can only M$ knows.  You should be able to reset the setting to factory
>defaults without a problem.  You just need to look into what is needed
>for that to happen.  You may have to do something with modprobe or some
>of the pci utilities to do this.  The thing is everytime XP comes up it
>will either reset the settings to what it believes, which is good then
>each system will have what it needs, or it will puke on the device, and
>then you have more complicated things to deal with to make it work 
>smoothly.
>--
>JD Runyan
>		"You can't milk a point."
>			David M. Kuehn, Ph.D.
>
>

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