On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:12:22 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:27:44 -0700, Bill wrote: >> > I was wondering if anyone had succeeded in getting the POTS built-in >> > modem on a T410 to work with squeeze. I only need the modem for a >> > backup on those rare occasions when POTS is all there is, but I would >> > like to have it configured. >> >> Those damn software modems are a bunch of... I better shut up :-) > > You will have to buy a driver from Linuxant if you want that thing to > work.
Why? Is the free version of their software not working at all? :-? >> > After a night on Google, I discover that the Linuxant module is >> > essentially marketing bait for a commercial upgrade. So no way to >> > that. I'm not a purist exactly, but I only have 5 non-free packages >> > on the system. One more won't matter but I intend to stick with free >> > software as far as possible. >> >> Linuxant provides a free (but limited) version of the drivers, maybe >> that's fine for your requirements. >> >> http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hsf/full/downloads.php > > You're better off paying for those drivers, really. You either need the > modem and the paid linuxant driver, or you don't need it that much and > you'll be much better off disabling the modem in the BIOS. I thougth softmodems were really bad but Conexant chipset based ones at least provide two sets of drivers... are you saying nooone work? >> Or better yet, get a real modem >:-) > > That would be either a cdc-acm USB device, which can be rather difficult > to find... or a USB RS232 dongle plus an async RS232 modem (large and > somewhat expensive). Uh? A plain USB or a PCMCIA/Smart PC card (being both hardware based modems) will do the job quite well. Anything is better than an embedded modem. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.06.23.18.39...@gmail.com