[hcflinux] Downloading Conexant driver

[Karl Scheel]

I have something to add to Angus' reply:

In order for Mandrake to see your Win98 partition, you must specify it as 
a mount point (i.e., /any_name_you_choose). This step is not performed 
automatically when you install Mandrake or any other Linux distro; for 
security reasons, you must perform this step manually using a Linux 
partitioning utility, such as the Linux version of fdisk (i.e., during 
installation), DiskDruid (i.e., during installation), or following 
Mandrake installation using Mandrake Control Center while logged-in as 
root using the graphical environment of your choice (e.g., KDE or GNOME), 
provided that you have the utility installed that allows the graphical 
Mandrake Control Center to do this. 

However, if you are going make your Win98 partition visible to Mandrake, 
it is highly recommended that you also install one of the free firewall 
programs that are included to guard against intrusions into 
your Windows partition from within Mandrake, as the Windows partition 
would then be world-readable and world-writeable with no way to change the 
read/write permissions (although you could give your Windows partition a 
name that is hard for an outsider to guess).

Having said this, however, it would be a major convenience for you to be 
able to read from and write to your Win98 partition using Linux. On one 
occasion, I was able to download the latest Windows version of Netscape 
from my ISP's Web site using Linux; I had to do it this way because I 
couldn't access my ISP's Web site from within Windows because the version 
of Netscape that I was using at the time was suddenly rendered obsolete 
due to a change in the programming of the site. However, using my Linux 
version of Netscape, I was able to download it to the location: 
/mnt/my_windows_mount_point/Windows/Desktop. When I rebooted back into 
Windows, the program's installation icon magically appeared on my Win98 
desktop as if I had downloaded it using Windows!

Cheers!

Karl


On March 19, 2003 09:36 pm, you wrote:
> Hi Leo,
> If you are able to download the driver from Win98, just be sure to take
> note of the destination folder where IE saves the driver (you can
> specify the destination when download begins). From Mandrake you can
> browse to that location on your Windows FAT partition
> (file:/mnt/windows) and copy/paste the driver file to your Linux /home
> directory.
> Alternatively, you can copy the driver to floppy and then get it to your
> Mandrake system from that medium.
>
> HTH. Best of luck to you! Welcome to the world of Linux!
>
>
>
> --Angus
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> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: "leo ruffini" <ruffle66 at worldnet.att.net>
> To: <hcflinux at lists.mbsi.ca>
> Subject: [hcflinux] Downloading Conexant driver
> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 21:16:31 -0500
>
> I'm a linux newbie.  I've found the appropriate Conexant  driver on your
> web page "Linux Drivers for Conexant"  for Mandrake 9.0 using Explorer
> 6.  I'm not sure it downloads as I can't find it in anywhere in my
> windows 98 OS. Am I supposed to download this in Windows or Linux and if
> the latter I'm in catch 22 situation as  Mandrake is unable to recognize
> the modem. Can you help?
>
> L.
>
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