It's often difficult to convince people to try 'nix' if they have to spend money replacing hardware that works (tongue in cheek) with the offerings form M$. It was a useful exercise in demonstrating how flexible linux is and how you can do it yourself to fix problems.
Franki wrote:
Just download the driver for your kernel version..
http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv/hsf/archive/hsflinmodem-5.03.03.L3mbsibeta0211
0300/hsflinmodem-5.03.03.L3mbsibeta02110300k2.4.19_16mdk-1mdk.i586.rpm
Then just install it..
rpm -ivh hsflinmodem-5.03.03.L3mbsibeta02110300k2.4.19_16mdk-1mdk.i586.rpm
it will do all the work for you from that point... then just run kppp to
detect modem or use wvdial whatever...
I have done it many times and it works great.... Marc Boucher did some
fantastic work on those drivers.
good luck....
rgds
Franki
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard J A
Sent: Sunday, 24 November 2002 6:12 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] modem question
Hi,
First off, I have absolutely no idea what I am doing. I installed Mandrake
9.0, and it installed everything alright except I have no idea how to get my
modem to work. So until then, I am back on this awful Microcrap XP. I
would appreciate any help anyone could give me, and in as easy terms to
understand as possible, because all of the help pages I have seem to talk in
a language that is far above my head :0(
My modem is Conexant Softk56 PCI so I gather I go here
http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv/hsf/downloads-mdk-x86.html and download
kernel version 2.4.19-16mdk (I gather) after that I have no idea what to do.
How do I install that? I'm used to the simple and pleasurable clicking on
an upgrade in windows and letting it self install, but when I clicked on
this, it just asked me what to open it with, argh.
When I installed it, it would find that I had some other type of modem,
Eth(something) and would show I had an LAN whatever. I have no idea what
any of that is. Someone suggested I disable that then my modem will show
up, but as I don't know what it is and it all came with my computer, I have
no idea how to do that, so I'd rather stay away from that.
Anyway, if anyone can help me, I'd be very grateful
Thanks for you time
Take Care
Richard
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