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I currently run Mandrake 9.1 on a Dell laptop with a Lucent winmodem. I get my winmodem drivers from Germany as rpms and they have always worked. I am about to try out Slackware 9.1 and wonder if anyone could tell me first whether the equivalent tar.gz drivers (for the relevant kernel) are known to work.
try rpm2tgz then use installpkg to install the drivers (not really sure if its gonna work anyway) .. btw if you have the source , then compile it from source
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