Re: SUSE 9.0 with alcatel speedtouch 330 USB modem & other questions

From: Paulo Rocha (paulorocha_at_megamail.pt)
Date: 05/18/04


Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 22:33:00 +0100

JB wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone here could give me a little help setting up my
> alcatel 330 USB modem (firmware version 4?) to work with SUSE 9.0.

Maybe this document will help you:
    http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2002/05/configSpeedTouch.html

Don't expect to get that modem to work easily. It will take some effort.
Enjoy the ride.

> One final question ;) i probably wanna keep all my HD using NTFS, any long

If you want to keep all your HD using NTFS, where are you going to install
SuSE? ;-)

> is it
> possible to use the same data with both the liux and winxp versions?

In theory it is possible if both programs store their settings on files, and
not on the Windows registry...
You'll have to create a FAT32 partition to have the shared files. FAT32 is
the only filesystem which can be safely written on both Linux and Windows.



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