Just installed my first Linux distribution today (Mandrake 10.0 Official
Download). The install went fine without any problems now I need to install
the modem.

I have downloaded the drivers from this site
http://dsl-linux.tripod.com/index/ but as I'm completely new to Linux, the
limited instructions just confused me somewhat. Can anyone please offer some
advice in plain English how to go about installing this modem and then how
to get an internet connection.

It would be great if I could finally get the connection as first impressions
of the OS are good ones.

Many thanks.

NP.

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In comp.os.linux.setup NP <-@-.com> suggested:
> Just installed my first Linux distribution today (Mandrake 10.0 Official
> Download). The install went fine without any problems now I need to install
> the modem.

> I have downloaded the drivers from this site
> http://dsl-linux.tripod.com/index/ but as I'm completely new to Linux, the
> limited instructions just confused me somewhat. Can anyone please offer some
> advice in plain English how to go about installing this modem and then how
> to get an internet connection.

Found the instructions pretty clear, despite the 'make install'
step which has to be done as root and I left out as there's no
such modem here. That was all needed from some xterm after
downloading:

(Checking md5sum/gpg was not possible since there was none)

tar tvf ./fdx310-linux-01.tar
(Check if there really is some directory inside the tar ball.)

tar xvf ./fdx310-linux-01.tar
(Unpack the stuff)

cd eciadsl-usermode_0.5/
(Change to just unpacked dir.)

ls -al
(Look what we got)

less README
(Check readme for instructions, always a good idea before trying
anything else)

rpm -qa | grep gcc
(Double check if we have the mention g++ compiler installed)

make
(Nothing more then that required here, clean compile)

make install
(Left out, as above explained. Has to be run as root, read Makefile
before, if curious.)

Hope that helps?

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