Bob Cross's questions

I am currently trying to find ways to tether a Nokia E62 cellphone to a Dell notebook running Fedora 11. In Windows world, I would download the Nokia PC Suite applications, one of which is the standard "use your phone as a network interface" app. It's not clear if there is anything that parallels it in the Linux world.

NOTE: I am interested in solutions to my specific problem as well a general guidelines for the rest of our hardware as we move more and more of our notebooks to Linux.

Another NOTE: This isn't a single-workstation question. We're building a pool of Linux notebooks and we need a general plan for tethering across multiple phone types and notebooks. I'm using the specific example as the starting point for a discussion.

For historical reasons, one of the machines that I manage has a Redhat Enterprise 4 boot disk (among others). Every now and then, we have to boot into RHEL4 to bring up some of the legacy software that we support and connect to. Since it's a fringe system, the Redhat support has long since lapsed and I can't convince myself that it would be worth paying just to get RPMs that I can go and get for myself.

That said, the default RHEL tools are heavily biased against letting you do exactly that. I would like to install yum and use that as my package discovery and installation.

So, is there an installation guide to integrating yum with an older RHEL 4 system?

Here is the scenario: installing an update to ActivCard (6.1) to a Windows XP laptop. After the required reboot, Windows XP brings up the default blue background, waits for quite a long time and then brings up the following dialog:

User Interface Failure

The Logon User Interface DLL acmsgina.dll failed to load.

Contact your system administrator to replace the DLL or restore the original DLL.

Serverfault seemed like a much better bet than trying to get a hold of our system administrators on a nice Friday afternoon....

EDIT: the machine cannot Safe Mode boot. It hangs at Mup.sys.