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Mandrake 8.1 question

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starwarsdad

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I installed Mandrake 8.1 last night. Everything was going fine. It had a setting for my Alcaltel USB modem, so I thought things were going to be great. Got a message:

You need the Alcatel microcode. Dowload it at: http://www.alcatel.com/consumer/dsl/dvrreg_lx.htm and copy the mgmt.o in /usr/share/speedtouch

So I went to the site (on my Win 2K box) and d/l'ed the file. I unzipped it and found the mgmt.o file.

My qeustion is: Can I literally just copy the file in that directory and everything will work from there?

THanks!
 
I would assume the answer is YES, unless the directions on that website indicate differently. There's certainly little harm in trying it.
 
That is kind of what I was thinking, but I not familiar enough with Linux to be sure I wouldn't be screwing something up.

Thanks!
 
You can. What you are going to need to do is just copy the file to a floppy, take that floppy to your Linux box, drop to a shell prompt, and type in the following:

MOUNT /dev/fd0

You can then either copy the file from the Mandrake File Manager, or from the shell. If you want to do it from the shell, then type the following:

MV /MOUNT/FD0/filename /path/path...

It should recognize the filesystem on the floppy as FAT. If that doesn't work, then try LINUXNEWBIE.ORG and they have directions on how to mount the floppy.

As I've said this before, this is one of the shortcomings with Linux, but after you learn it, it is a piece of cake.
 
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