On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 15:07, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > My son-in-law just dumped his Windows2000 after the latest attack > from virus, worms and BSODs. I talked him into trying MDK 9.1. > Everything seemed to go well until he tried to connect. That's > why it is a little difficult for me to help him out, 'cause we > are 400 kilometes apart. So - until further progress is made - > we must communicate over phone line. > > His problem is modem related. It is an E-Tech 56K Flex V.90. > Extern hardware modem. It seems to come with a Rockwell chipset. > When running drakconnect, he can go as far as to query the > modem. Then : nothing. No strings, no connection, nada. > > I've googled around to no avail. Doesn't show up on the > compatibility lists, be it Mandrake, RedHat or S.u.S.E.. Some > posts on mailing lists claims it incompatible, some not. > > Questions : > > 1. Does anyone here know if it is compatible ? > 2. If it isn't : what modems are ? > > Thanks in advance, > > Kaj Haulrich. if this is an external serial connected modem, as long as you are looking at the correct ttySx where x equals the 'real' number of the serial port you should not be having this problem, does the serial port have a setting to disable it in bios? what ttyS0 is the config pointing to
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