Eric,
Can you please give me some specifics. I'd really appreciate it. In
addition to wanting to use an alternate modem, I'd like to use the
Realport's Lan capabilities. The Armada came with a 3com 10/100 ethernet
card... you know, the kind with a dongle hanging off which connects to the
local ethernet cable... well, the card, in spite of 3com's reputation, is
a piece of ill-designed shit. because the dongle connector on the card
side wears out, and when it does it keeps slipping out of the card breaking
the connection. So, you replace the dongle... you either wait days for
warranty service which will eventually expire or you go to the local cable
store and pay $40 for this thing. $40!!!. So, I'm very very anxious to
get the Realport card working both on the modem and lan fronts. Any
specific detail you can offer will be greatly appreciated.
tia,
Brian
eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com on 11/04/2000
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> Some pcmcia modems are indeed winmodems. Just half an ago i was looking
at
> one. I use a Compaq Armada M700. Compaq, in its wisdom, "upgraded" the
> modem in this unit. What used to be a perfectly fine real internal modem
> is now a winmodem. I have worked with the winmodem(linmodem?) in the
> Armada for a while. I've gotten to the point of being able to dial and
> establish a ppp connection. At that point however, the connection drops.
> I'm looking hard to find a real pcmcia modem. But, more and more,
> manufacturers(including 3com) are making winmodems and the real thing is
> getting harder to find. I wonder what all those people running NT are
> doing? Anyway, I thought I would try a Xircom Realport modem/lan card
> combo. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be supported by Mandrake. Has
> anyone used one of these cards? If anyone has gotten one of these
working
> I'd really like to know what it took. Otherwise, can anyone recommend a
> currently available pcmcia real modem card which actually has been shown
to
> work in Linux kernel 2.2.14-15mdk.
>
> brian
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> I am trying to get a PCMCIA modems to work under Kppp (MD7.1, Sony Vaio
PCG
> F250) I have tried all the /dev options from /dev/modem to whatever the
> last
> one is and either get modem busy, can't open modem etc. If I set flow
> control
> to "none" and then try to query modem, it will say modem ready and check
> the
> ATI commands but the resulting table of ATI commands is blank.
> The shop told me that all PCMCIA modems are "hardware" modems, were they
> wrong,
> have they sold me a Winmodem ?
I ever successfully inter conncet Xircom real port (for ppp) on caldera2.3
and (lan ) on slackware7.0
Eric
