I bought a U.S. Robotics 56K FaxModem model 5610. It uses the PCI bus, but it is not a WinModem. The modem works fine with Redhat 7.1, but when I installed Mandrake 8.1 the HardDrake software detected the modem at configuration time and exited because it claimed the modem was a WinModem. I found a brief reference in a ChangeLog that stated that all PCI modems are WinModems. This is not true. The PCI card I bought has an onboard processor and it works just fine with RedHat. The HardDrake detection software is broken. I've submited a bug report.
Unfortunately registering the bug doesn't solve my immediate problem. I have to boot to Redhat to connect to the Internet to read mail. I'd like to fix Mandrake 8.1 so I can do so without a reboot. Anyone have a suggestion on a command that I can use to configure the modem to work?
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