Paul & Brenda Ahlstedt wrote: > Hi gang, > > Just joined the group and wanted to share a recent experience with my > Compaq Presario 2545US laptop that some of you might find helpful. I of > course installed Linux on my portable box only to find out that it had a > Winmodem which will not run under it. I did quite a bit of research, > and rather than try to hack a solution to my problem (because I really > AM a newbie) I decided that I wanted a plug and play solution. After > mucho reading of list archives, it seemed apparent that a PCMCIA card > which was not a Winmodem would work with most any Linux distro. > > So, I searched high, searched low, and finally found what I thought > would work at a local chain here in S. California called, "Best Buy." > It is a Dynex PCMCIA v.92 modem card, model number DX-M200. It was just > under eighty bucks. I loaded it into the card slot, turned on the > computer and it worked right away with no configuration on my part. I > have run it under the following distros: > > Mandrake 2005 Limited Edition (what I am on now) > Mandrake 10.1 > SuSE 9.2 > Ubuntu > Debian > Fedora > > Oddly enough, Knoppix 3.8.1 did not detect it and I haven't figured that > one out yet. Knoppix is my favorite live distro though, so I figure > I'll fiddle with it some more. Hope this helps someone because I sure > was feeling pretty down thinking that I would not be able to use Linux - > but the card modem worked excellent, it has onboard power management > features for your mobil box, and was plug and play for lack of a better > term. Oh, one other odd thing - in the Mandrake hardware configuration > tool window, it does not show the card. Instead, it is down in the > "unknown" section at the bottom of the list as a "ttyS6" id. Despite > the fact that the system is calling it an unknown, the modem runs with > the selection "dev/modem" in KPPP's configuration box. Again, no > configuration on my part other than entering the user name, password, > dialup phone number, etc. Just the usual stuff. It is quite fast as > well. Probably another 10 or 20 percent faster than the original > Winmodem was running under XP. > > Best wishes, > > Paul > > I suspect that the card ID is not in the database, even though the card function is defined as a modem. It would be interesting to see the output of "cardctl info 0" and "cardctl ident 0". (Change 0 to 1 if you have the card in slot 1 instead of 0.)
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