[ILUG] Linux Modems

[Kevin Philp]

I had a similar problem with a pci modem a few years ago. I eventually bought 
an external, serial modem from Dabs so I was sure it would work. They still 
sell the same modem and I am in the process of ordering one for a guy who 
wants to try Linux but also has a useless pci modem. Its quite cheap - about 
Euro 30 if I remember right.

Kevin.


On Thursday 14 July 2005 15:19, Anthony wrote:
>Ian Spillane wrote:
>> Thanks for your original help but I think it was just that my winmodem was
>> outside the range of chipsets supported. No problems just no action.
>>
>> The error message from compiling 536ep is just a failure/stopping message.
>> Tried to find an rpm. No luck. I think if I've seen google indications
>> that changes in FC4 has fucked up a lot. I'll try it again and report
>> back.
>
>Hi Ian,
>
>I don't know if this is any help to you or not. I too had been caught
>out by the box stating that it was a hardware modem and that it worked
>with Linux. I now know better. No cheap(ish) PCI modem that I have come
>across is really a proper hardware modem.
>
>When I was running Mandrake 9.2 on my 233MHz PC, I had no problem
>compiling the driver for the 536ep chip set - once I had the
>kernel-source installed and had recompiled my kernel. However I remember
>wanting to upgrade to a more modern Mandrake distro but not being able
>to do so as there was no driver available for Linux 2.6.
>(from looking at
>http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/filter_results.aspx?strT
>ypes=all&ProductID=977&OSFullName=Linux*&lang=eng&strOSs=39&submit=Go%21 the
> appropriate drivers have since become available.)
>Since then, I've moved on to using a better-specced PC and now have ADSL
>so I can leave those worries behind. Though I have to say that my
>experiences resulted in me becoming opposed to hardware that can only be
>used with proprietary / binary-only drivers.
>
>Best of luck,
>Anthony