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Making the Switch-03: First impressions and first problems after installation
Darwin:
Thanks for the automatix link, Zaine. I'm checking it out now!
Armando:
With Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, I found that there are not that many applications that automatix will install that is not already installed or can't be installed via synaptic. No?
Darwin:
Armando that's the way it looks to me, too. Still nice to have - would have made installing WINE a lot easier, for example. I'm glad I've got it as it supplements the native installer really well.
Tonurics:
lanux128: The problem you are having is related to using WinModems (A.K.A Softmodem), is a modem with minimal hardware capacities, designed to use a host computer's resources (mostly CPU power and RAM but sometimes even audio hardware) to perform most of the tasks performed by dedicated hardware in a traditional modem. The modem hardware tends to be nothing more than a telephony port with the modem firmware being run inside the windows driver. They are much cheaper to make, so that are becoming more and more common. You might be luckily and have a model that you can use the generic minicom to connect with, otherwise linmodems.org (as you found) will try to sell you a linux driver.
More Info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winmodem
good research, zridling.. :Thmbsup: i must be like light years behind as only recently i found out that GNU/Linux doesn't support dial-up modems (serial or USB).. instead you have make a trip to http://www.linmodems.org to complete the process.. ;)
P.S. i was installing Ubuntu 6 & Vector Linux 5.8 on a P3 with 328MB RAM..
-lanux128 (June 10, 2007, 05:42 AM)
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I would suggest anyone considering using automatix to read https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats first, and most if not all of the things you are trying to enable (mp3, wma, dvd, etc.) can already be done using the existing tools. Automatix is known for ignoring your apt database and can really screw up your system with broken dependencies. I have heard a lot of horror stories; RPM hell for DEP if you will. ;)
Darwin:
Thanks for the link re: automatix, tournics - I'll take a look. *Fortunately* I haven't had much time to play in ubuntu lately, so haven't used automatix to install anything!
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