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I installed this external modem few months ago and it was working. Now turn on the modem and boot up the computer. I got the following message. I remember I had this message first time I installed the modem. It seems everytime I turn on the modem and boot up I get this message, and if I turn off the modem I don't get this message at boot up. I pressed option 2 ignore. I can't find the modem in the hardware manager. Can someone give me some advices on how to install this and eliminate this message. I have a Redhat Fedora Kernel version 2.6.9-1.667
*******************************Start up message**************
Hardware Added
The following modem has been added to your system:
USR|3080 U.S. Robotics 56k Voice Ext
you can choose to:
1) Configure the device,
2) Ignore the device. No configuration will be added, but you will not be prompted if the device is dected on subsequent reboots.
3) Do nothing . No configuration will be added and the device will show up as new if it is deceted on subsequent reboots.
I would choose the option number 1, configure the modem (answer to some questions) and hope that message doesn't show up again.
Yes I took option one last time and I couldnt connect to internet using dsl. My eth0 was gone. I guess if I took option one the configuration wiped out eth0.. Can you show me how to install it while my system is on. So if I install it and I turn off Kudzu I think it will be ok..
thanks
Well surely, if your Linux recognizes your ethernet card (like it seems to do, if you get the message at boot like you do heh), you can usually use ifcfg or ifconfig to configure eth0. Well actually what you want is to use ifcfg, since that's how you tell if you want to use DHCP, for example. ifcfg writes a file ifcfg-eth0 that includes the settings for your ethernet connection (like if it uses DHCP to automatically get the ip addresses and dns addresses etc.).
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heh), you can usually use ifcfg or ifconfig to configure eth0. Well actually what you want is to use ifcfg, since that's how you tell if you want to use DHCP, for example. ifcfg writes a file ifcfg-eth0 that includes the settings for your ethernet connection (like if it uses DHCP to automatically get the ip addresses and dns addresses etc.).
