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mrfngolf

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Posted: Jan. 18 2005,17:43

Yeah I'm back with more noobish questions....
This time I'm trying to connect to the internet. I tried using the pop-up menus that you can access by right clicking the mouse but the function/process never seems to finish. Then I got to thinking..... my modem? This machine was originally set-up for windows, including the modem. It's a 56k Motorola and all the software/drivers/etc that came with is are for Windows. So I'm guessing that my modem is not even being detected and is not designed to even work with a non-win o/s.... is this correct?

RobDollar

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Posted: Jan. 19 2005,16:27

If you find the model code/number of your modem, then search for those drivers on google you should have some luck, fingers crossed.
Otherwise post it here and someone might be able to help.

mrfngolf

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Posted: Jan. 23 2005,07:42

OK, here's what i found out......
The DSL kernel is 2.4.26
I went to the motorola homepage to see what Linux versions and kernels were supported and here's their complete list:
* RedHat 7.3 (kernel version 2.4.18-3, sm56-06.05.00-1.rh7.i386.rpm)
* RedHat 8.0 (kernel version 2.4.18-14, sm56-06.05.00-1.rh8.i386.rpm)
* RedHat 9.0 (kernel version 2.4.20-8, sm56-06.05.00-1.rh9.i386.rpm)
* Mandrake Linux 9.2 (kernel version 2.4.22-10mdk, sm56-06.05.02-1.mdk.i586.rpm)
* Mandrake Linux 10.0 (kernel version 2.6.3-7mdk, sm56-06.05.02-2.mdk10_263-7.i586.rpm)
* Suse Linux 9.0 (kernel version 2.4.21, sm56-06.05.02-1.suse90-020421-99.athlon.rpm)
* Suse Linux 9.0 (kernel version 2.4.21, sm56-06.05.02-1.suse90-020421-99.i586.rpm)
As you can see no DSL and no kernel version 2.4.26
On another site it talked about writing a kernel...... that's a little outta my league right now. So it looks like I'm back to square one and maybe just buying a modem that's designed for Linux. But even then am I sure it will be supported by DSL??

mrfngolf

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Posted: Jan. 23 2005,08:06

Ah, more wonderful news..... When I saw the model name I kinda had a feeling that the "sm" in Mororola SM56 stood for software modem, bummer.

ryptyde

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Posted: Jan. 23 2005,15:39

I use a US Robotics model 5610B internal modem and can connect on dial-up but had to manually choose my modem as "ttyS4".I also use the same modem on my Fedora Core 2 box.

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