On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 23:00, Lanman wrote:
Stephen Kuhn wrote:
I set aside an 18gb SCSI to install 10.0 OE on - a clean install - so that I can still work/serve with my 9.1 until I get it completely up to snuff prior to cutting over (I love having a back-out plan, ya know?)
Meanwhile, I'm going to have to get my modem going with 10.0 OE prior to being able to completely do the switch. I noticed (on the last boot into linux-enterprise) that I'm going to have to install some extra "kernel" stuff that doesn't necessarily pertain to the kernel I THINK I'm using (ain't it supposed to be kernel 2.6.3???); so, being that I didn't spend a heck of alot of time in there on the last boot, what's the gig?
Everything else seems to work great - NVidia found itself, Audigy works like a champ, everything APPEARS to be happening correctly - all except the modem...but that I understand...
SO, with that said, what light can be shed?
stephen kuhn - proprietor
Also found this,...
http://linmodems.org/
Lanman
Thanks Lanman - for all the links and the time it took - but sorry to say I've already been that route and have been pointing out two of those links for several years to "noobs" already - I just keep ending up at the Linuxant site where I'm prompted to pay for a driver; my modem cost about that much - and after some discussion with THE BETTER HALF, I think we're just going to get a nice external modem because the philosophy behind "buying a modem then buying a driver" doesn't sit too well with either of us.
Being that I haven't spent much time inside of 10.0 OE MYSELF and haven't had the chance to hack around a bit, and seeing as though the device driver code requires a "license", I might give it a go at hacking through the code a tad bit FOR MY OWN LEARNING so that I can locate and remove the license code generation crap and possibly have a driver that can be a fully functional fax and modem that isn't limited to 14.4k (how bloody damn stupid is that shit?)
...and if anything else, I think the days of "modems" in our house is coming to an end. I can't function properly over dialup what with all the Windows updates I have to get for customers - it's getting slightly more than ridiculous...
stephen kuhn - proprietor
Stephen; No Prob. Took about 40 seconds to find the links. WooHoo! I was kinda surprised to see you asking about modem info, since I thought you'd already know about them. Guess I was right.
If you go with an external modem, you should be able to find some nice ones out there, but even so, the fastest Fax you'll ever find is 19,600 bps. They just don't make fax machines any faster than that, so that will be the best speed you'll ever get from the fax software.
Having a modem for faxing is probably a good idea, but as things are, i only use mine on my laptop when I'm out of town on Business. Even so, I make a point of making sure that the hotels I stay in have "data-ports" in the rooms.
Personally, I think that modem manufacturers are toning down their R&D efforts because of the availability of High-Speed solutions. That's probably the reason that their not breaking any records in releasing Linux drivers, too.
Hope you're not too far away from a good DSL or Cable ISP down there.
Good Luck with the driver project.
Lanman
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