Just wondering if anyone has had any luck installing mandrake 9.1 on a dell inspiron 1100. I'm having a hell of a time getting the video to work properly. I found some articles about installing redhat, and that there is a patch to get things working. I downloaded the patch and tried it with mandrake, but could not get it to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

With my fiance's Inspiron 2600, the BIOS had to be a certain version, A07 I think. If it was above that or below that, the video didn't work well. Maybe it's a BIOS issue with yours too.

video not working? or do you mean within xwindows?

In the articles I've read on redhat installs it said that the bios was the issue I have version a22. The video does not work within xwindows.

There is a video patch for A22 bios issue. See the page at this link:
http://www.geocities.com/randomnumbergenerator2001/

that link its great

I have installed my lcd with no problem, the ethernet card pretty easy too. Then came my greatest fear in linux: the WINMODEM.
From this link i found that I can use the hsflinmodem from this site and that it work. http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/asa...stalling.html. I download the source for free from : http://uk.geocities.com/loui2k/linux...3041600.tar.gz and for the first time I compile the driver with no error. Then when I try kppp I can't query modem. I try to select the modem from /dev/modem and /dev/ttySHSF0 with no success. When the driver was compiled it prompt me that the modem was installed and ready to use at /dev/ttySHSF0. When I review the /dev directory there is no /dev/modem or /dev/ttySHSF0.
What could be the problem, this is the closest I have being from succefully installing a modem