Hi, cheers everyone who have tried to help, looks like i may have to go and buy a new modem, there is no way im going to pay those w.....s at that website money for drivers. It just seems strange to me that Linux are getting bigger and better, but they are still let down by the need of software support, and those that are trying to monopolise modem support by making people pay for something that should be readily available to anyone, should be shot. Oh and i think ive solved the html thing...lol
Cheers Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "anton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 6:33 PM Subject: Re: modem help > > >Bad luck. There are only commercial drivers for connexant chip modems > >available, US$15. > > > hmmm. You sure about that? I am pretty sure I had a rockwell/connexant > running with an rpm from: > http://www.heby.de/ltmodem > > >You can try at reduced speed (33k) before you buy. > >For $30-35, you can get a new modem card with lucent chip which has > >costless, but no opensource drivers. Installing the drivers will be a > >little hassle as you'll need to recompile/link them for your kernel. > > > http://www.heby.de/ltmodem > has rpms for some lucent modems (the LT, and others), which are I think > the bottom of the range el cheapo (i.e., the one i've got...). Double > click and play. No recompile, no link, at least not that I have to do. > Got both Redhat 9 and MDK 9.2 no worries. The modem cost me about > $20-$25 from memory. So do NOT pay for a driver. > > > > >There are Intel 536EP chip modems too for the same price, driver > >installation and configuration of Linux etc is out of the box and fully > >automatic on SuSE 8.2, but I could not yet get the modem itself to talk > >to any ISP's dialup, probably because I haven't yet found the correct > >init strings for that modem. You will have this kind of problem > >potentially with any modem. The 536EP driver is also costless, but not > >opensource, if it's not out of the box for your, crank your compiler. > > > I have a sneaking suspicion that you have no desire to do any "crank > your compiler"ing, visit the site above before anything else. > Cheers > Anton > > > > >Volker > > > > > > > > > >
