On Thursday 08 April 2004 15:17, Olwë Melwasúl wrote: > I would be very angly if my expensive USRob modem was not Linux > compatible. I looked in the Mandrake Control Center/Hardware and it > sees "US Rob/3Com PCI 56k faxmodem Model 5610". I tried to run > scanModem, but it errored-out "/dev/modem symbolic link not set; > lspci not found please install pciutils." I ran it as root. > > Yes the CD is a CD-RW. > > Erylon Hines wrote: > >On Wednesday 07 April 2004 07:36 pm, Olwë Melwasúl wrote: > >>Hello, > >> > >>I installed a community download version of 10 and the install > >> seemed to go smoothly. However, I cannot get it to recognize my US > >> Robotics 56k PCI modem. On the WinXP side (if I can get MD to work > >> Win goes!), the modem is at COM4, INT10. I've tried sticking this > >> into the system hardware wizard, but to no avail. Similarly, MD > >> doesn't see my CD-ROM, even though I installed with it. > >> > >>Olwe > > > >Probably a WINDOWS ONLY modem (WinModem). USR is notorious for not > > supporting Linux. External serial modems from any manufacturer > > will work. Most WinModems with LUCENT chipsets (LinModems) work, > > too (better than they do in Windows, in my experience). Some > > Conexant chipsets work (never used them, but I've heard the drivers > > are proprietary). And, finally, PCTel Winmodems may work, too. > > For more info, go to http://www.linmodems.org > > > >As for the CD-ROM, that is weird. Assuming you don't have a CD-RW, > > there should be an entry line in your /etc/fstab that resembles > > this (all on one line): > >none /mnt/cdrom supermount > >dev=/dev/hdd,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 > > > > > > > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > >---- > > > >____________________________________________________ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > >Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com > >____________________________________________________ I have a USR 5610B works great. If you have wvdial.conf use it otherwise run setserial (CLI). The U.S. Robotics 5610 is compatable with Linux. -- Regards; Hoyt
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