Modem Drivers on CD!!!

wolverine1 · 11-15-2006, 10:11 PM

Hello,

This is JaDan I'm trying to help Paul. He just bought a BEST DATA 56K V.92 USB MODEM. It works on WINDOWS & LINUX and has the drivers for LINUX on the Installation CD, along witn a README file for LINUX. How do we open this readme file, so that we can find out how to install the drivers and get them into the right place on the harddrive in UBUNTU. Any help would be appreciated!!

Thanks,

JaDan & Paul

PatrickNew · 11-15-2006, 10:30 PM

are you trying to read it on windows or Linux? In windows, just double click on it. In linux, with a window manager do the same. In linux at a command line, type "cd <the directory holding the README" then "emacs README"

Nylex · 11-15-2006, 10:30 PM

Have you mounted the CD? If not, you'll need to issue something like "sudo mount /dev/cdrom" in a terminal. What that will do is attach the file system on the CD to your "root" file system (which means the files on that CD will appear in a directory under /). After that, you can just open the README with a text editor, or just print the contents to the terminal. If you don't know where your CD is mounted to (and I don't know, because I don't use Ubuntu), post a copy of your /etc/fstab file here.