On Thursday 05 August 2004 22:33, Julie Sloan wrote: > Hi - my first post to this forum. I've been trying to inhale all the > information out there and so far have made it through just a few of > the info & man pages. > > I'm on mandrake 10.0 official, got both KDE and Gnome running (but > trying to make this work from the KDE GUI) dual booting with WinXP > > The modem's a conexant hsf and I've d/l'd the apropriate driver from > the linuxant site into the window$ partition > > in my /etc/fstab there's already this line: > /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0 none /proc > proc defaults 0 0 > > and I can peek into the windoze partition from KDE > > in terminal I copied the driver into a disposable directory, cd'd > into the directory with it and did: > rpm -iv hsfverylongfilename.rpm > > now in GUI... > in MCC -> hardware -> hardware ...the modem is *still* listed as > "unknown device." > > in MCC -> network -> make new connection ...I tell it modem, com3 > (yes, 3), automatic on the IP, DNS, etc > > now get this: I got a handshake, then an error message (The system > doesn't seem to be connected to the internet. Try to reconfigure > your connection). so I took the "@mindspring.com" off my login (what > the hey, it's helped in netscape) and now I don't even get a > handshake. And the same error message. Put the login back as it was > and *still* get no handshake. Fooled around with the authentication > because I have no idea if I need PAP/CHAP (the default) or script > based or what, and when I have it set to CHAP I once again get a > handshake ...and the error message. > > Can anyone see where I'm screwing up? > > thanks > Julie You have what is called a winmodem. It is very difficult to get a winmodem to work in linux(for me impossible). The best bet is to get a true modem and it will work in both windows and everything else. The difference is that a winmodem does not have its own controller and must be managed by your CPU which takes considerable time while a true moden has its own controller and relives the CPU to do other things. I doubt that you are screwing up at all windows has already done that for you. -- Regards; Hoyt Registered Linux user #363264 http://counter.li.org
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