broken floppy suport, how do I fix it?
 

How do I fix the gui for floppy suport? If not, what free os hasfloppy suport?

Floppies are nearly extinct. Linux has floppy support available in the kernel

CONFIG_ARCH_MAY_HAVE_FDC
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD

I think. check the help.

It would definitely help if you told us what distro+version and exactly what you did and what msgs you got.

" floppy support" is not broken
in the new-ish 2.6 kernels it is disabled ( turned off )
i do not know about the 3.2 kernel , but i am betting it is there but TURNED OFF

add "modeprobe floppy " to the boot line

seeing as you can not buy a new computer with a 3.5 floppy drive
NO NEW 3.5 floppies are being made - sony closed the LAST production line about 2 years ago

so whatever 3.5's you have are well all there are

( in a few years i might post the 3 unopened boxes of 3.5 " mac" floppies on e-bay for $999.99 each and see what happens )

using mint. has icon for floppy will not mount. get no media. if i go to termanal and typeudisks --mount /dev/fd0 iget a icon on the desktop that wil mount. the problem is im a lost puppy on fixing gui. this system is for an old laddy that stilluses floppys.

Do the following in a terminal
Post what you find. Then go to

If you don't end up in a kernel source, install a kernel source & repeat.When you have a kernel source, run
and read up. You'll have to build him a kernel.