| (can't get my cdburner to work, my cdrom isn't mounting audio cds, | trying to find the correct linmodem, and getting a battery monitor). Linmodem. Tricky. It depends on the modem. I used the LinuxAnt.com drivers to get the last Lucent P.O.S. winmodem I had to deal with working. $20 to use all the features of your modem, but the drivers do work well. To me, the $20 was worth it as I didn't have to run to BestBuy durring a snowstorm to get a real modem. battery monitor, try richt clicking on your panel and checking what applets are available. Should be a battery monitor in there somewhere, assuming you have the related kernel mumbo jumbo enabled. (Fedora's installer may have done this for you if you selected a laptop install) CDBurner is the the tricky in depth one. You have to enable IDE SCSI. I don't know if this is the "right" way to do it on Fedora, but... ;) Add the following lines to /etc/modules.conf: alias scd0 sr_mod alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi options ide-cd ignore=hda Save file, run depmod -a Modify your /boot/grub.conf so that you define your cdburner as an ide-scsi device. The for me it looks like: kernel /vmlinuz-whatever ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb hdc=ide-scsi Modify things to reflect your system of course if hdc isn't yoru cd burner. Almost done, you have to modify your /etc/fstab file to reflect that you're mounting a "SCSI" device now. /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom udr,iso9660, noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 Also, do a ls -l /dev/scd0 and then groups yourusername, make sure you have rw access to /dev/scd0. Since you've changed a kernel boot paramater, it's one of the few times you have to reboot Linux. When the reboot finishes, try a cdrecond -scanbus and you're burner should show up. Cunsult the CD Writing HOWTO at http://www.tldp.org/ for more. I use gcombust for most of my cdburning, you may perfer something else. Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://www.ringworld.org A password is like your underwear; Change it frequently, don't share it with others, and don't ask to borrow someone else's. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list