As root (or su) open a terminal window and run modemconf and tell it to search for you modem. It may find it.
On Tuesday 02 October 2001 08:23 pm, you wrote: > 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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