Frank Zimmermann wrote:
Frank,
Thanks for trying to help. I have no idea what modem it is to be honest.
What is a softmodem? It's just the internal modem that came with the
machine (an ASUS L8400). I don't even know if the Debian partition
recognises that it exists - there must be a way to check this and fix it
if necessary.... and the Windows partition ought to be able to tell me
something about the modem. I have the modem set to ttyS2 manually.
Thanks,
Simon.
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srt
Softmodems are quite often called winmodems. Don't really know how
they work but the software somehow emulates a modem.
Do you still have Win running on this machine? Then you could easily
find out what modem you have. Otherwise you might have a look at the
vendors homepage or open your machine and have a look.
Then try to find out wether your modem is supported by Linux. Good
starting points for this http://www.google.com/linux, the Suse
Hardwaredatabase at http://cdb.suse.de or http://www.linmodems.org .
Frank
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