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Posted: May 01 2007,23:38 QUOTE
@curaga: I'll look around in the system stats and see if it shows something like that under another tab.. but for boot, that's all it showed me (what I wrote last time).

@torp: Thanks, I'll check that out.

@linux4all: Thanks for the explanation.. but since my DSL computer is an old computer, I'm lucky to even have USB ports on it.. I don't have an ethernet port... so that won't work.

*sigh*... why is linux so difficult?....:(
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Posted: May 02 2007,00:10 QUOTE
@curaga: UPDATE: I looked around the system stats and found somethin' like you were talkin' about under the dmesg tab. Here's what it said that looked like it had something to do with the modem.. everything else was about usb, or hda/hdb, or whatever..

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<6>Serial driver version 5.05c 2001-07-08 with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
<6>ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
<6>ttyS02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
<6>ttyS00 at port 0x03f8 (irq = 5) is a 16550A
<6>parport0: PC Style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
<5>NTFS driver v1.1.22 [Flags = R/W MODULE]
<6>Journalled Block Device driver loaded
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Posted: May 02 2007,06:01 QUOTE
It's not linux that's difficult... its the hardware that you have that's restricting you because you don't want to get any additional things :P
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Posted: May 02 2007,12:36 QUOTE
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*sigh*... why is linux so difficult?....:(

It isn't difficult. You're just at at starting point on the learning curve and hats is correct that your hardware choices (status quo) are a problem, not Linux. I run ethernet via USB on this machine with no problem, which is fortunate because it has no PCI slots and no ethernet onboard. You can buy cheap NICs for $5. If that's still not good enough, check with friends to see if they have any spares or if they have any old boxes from which you can salvage one or two (if you want to run a home network) NICs.

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Posted: May 03 2007,14:30 QUOTE
parport and NTFS have nothing to do with that... Two of those tty's are your serial ports, and one is the modem.. Since it's mentioned there, it seems to have a Linux driver...

Check your bios for the irq's of the serial ports (so you can rule them out)

And: it would be a heck more difficult if both machines were running Windows!

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