roadie
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Posted: May 11 2004,03:41 |
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gekkokid,
When you're done laughing maybe you could jump in and help?
To everyone thats trying to get dialup going,
You have to know what you have for a modem, externals are fairly well supported I think, not sure, never had one.
Internal pci modems have some support, Lucent/Agere, Conexant HCF, HSF can be used but you have to get a driver, most times that means getting the driver source code and compiling the driver. I have no idea about ISA modems, something tells me they're probably not worth the effort.
To compile the driver you need compiling tools that are'nt included in DSL or a lot of other Linux disros for that matter.
You will also need the kernel source and maybe kernel headers for some cards, for whatever kernel you're running.
I've built these drivers for every Linux distro I've had and in the end, it's a helluva lot easier to just get an external modem that you know is supported.
I'm on wireless now, (you have no idea how happy that makes me) course I ended up with a D-Link 520+ with a crappy TI chipset so I'm back to building drivers.
I won't go into configuring a Winmodem driver, you've got the fun of building it first but the Lucent/Agere package does some configuring for you, the HCF sometimes needs a symlink for /dev/modem.
Neither of these cards uses a standard /tty, they use /tty/LT0 for the Lucent or /tty/SHCF0 for the Conexant HCF
Check /proc/pci, it'll show the card name if it's detected. With these two cards I had only one distro that did'nt detect it.
Hope thats some help,
roadie
BTW, Serenity, thats the best step by step I've seen in a long time
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