Re: [newbie] Modem's busy
doesn't anyone read the friggin HCLs anymore? I can't believe how many times folks will sit here on the list and discuss, argue, and exchange tidbits about modems for Mandrake when there is a very clear list of modems that "are" supported by this particular distribution of Linux. In case there is anyone that doesn't know what an HCL is it is a Hardware Compatibility List. At the Mandrake home page there is a link to this very list which is named "Hardware". In case you happen to have a "win-modem" in your machine you should do search on the Newbie list archives for messages about this very thing. there are links galore that can point to sites that will tell you IF you will be able to get your win-modem to work, other sites that list modems by manufacturer, whether or not they're a win-modem, or hardware modem, and TONS of other stuff. Personally I think there should be an attention message that comes standard with every distribution of Mandrake instruction the consumer to check the HCL to make sure their hardware is supported. I mean something like a GIANT sticker that can't be missed. Ok...I think I'm done ranting...thank you for listening. -- Mark / * Sometimes it becomes necessary to rock the boat * in order to get the rats up from below decks * so they can be kicked over the side and drowned! * * REGISTERED LINUX USER # 182496 */ *REPLY SEPERATOR* On Sat, 25 Nov 2000 Tom Brinkman had this to say! On Saturday 25 November 2000 02:30 pm, KompuKit wrote: to be safe...just buy a EXTERNAL modem... all of them will work. this is just plain WRONG nonsense
Re: [newbie] Modem's busy
Mines on com1. There is a very good reason for this. I got a ready made computer and the manufacturer only put one uart in. Without more uarts coms 2 thru 4 will not work. The cheap manufacturer left out the chips for the serial ports. - Original Message - From: "KompuKit" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 2:41 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Modem's busy first of allmodems are always commonly hooked up on com 2 some times on com3 and 4but hardly never on com1 this is the first time...I've ever heard of a modem hooked up as com1 the mouse is supposed to use com 1...try setting it up on com2 and I bet it works Dennis Myers wrote: patrick wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 25 November 2000 02:30 pm, KompuKit wrote: to be safe...just buy a EXTERNAL modem... all of them will work. this is just plain WRONG nonsense -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay no , this is not nonsense. external modems work quite well with linux. i also want to share with everyone a way to make your printer work. i am using a panasonice laser jet. there is a driver in 7.2 for it. after installing it my printer was acting crazy. continually printing pages over and over. i uninstalled the driver finally , shut down the computer and rebooted. i also turned off the printer. i started kde and reinstalled the driver. printer works fine now. i just love linux :) I agree with the external modems work in linux. I have a Best Data ext Modem that worked very well until recently. It still works in windows but I keep getting a "Modem does not respond". I have tried to reset, unplug, reconfig, etc. To no avail. The modem is plugged into com1 i.e. ttyS0 and works in windows, but no response in 7.2. It does not show up in harddrake either. Any suggestions out there. Oh, I am on the Linux only box right now using a Best Data internal modem which also works very well and says Linux compatable on the box. Thanks for any help with this puzzle. -- Registered Linux User:167369 =KompuKit= Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lowell, Mass. Web Designerhttp://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M - F 6pm-12am, S S 12pm-12am EST) =KompuKit=
Re: [newbie] Modem's busy
How do you hook up an "ISA" "external modem" I sure would like to get one. Seems like your fingers and words are having one of my kind of days. Charles (-: - Original Message - From: "KompuKit" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 2:13 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Modem's busy O, sorry...I should of explained better you're right...I should of said, that "MOST" all external modems will work, provided they are ISA's with jumpers. However, with the new kernels coming out...they are supporting more usb's,and for that matter, alot of PCI's
Re: [newbie] Modem's busy
Dear All, I installed Suse 7 a couple of days ago and it was sharing my computer with LinuxM7.2.Something I did in there made it impossible to boot back into Linux7.2. I had to reinstall Linux 7.2 Also, I made the mistake of trying to setup my internet in Suse and I think it stole my serial port or i/o or whatever because now I cannot get on the net with Linux7.2. I was on the net without a problem before with Linux 7.2. I have set up everything I can however it says my modem is busy and that there is no card found even though I have it set up as it was before in the /etc/modules.conf file and with linux conference. One benefit I got though is now my Mp'3 play great in LinuxM7.2 and they did not before. Does anyone have any suggestions? I am thinking of removing Suse and hopefully that will get my internet up in Linux7.2 again. What would be the best way to do this? Thank you very much for your help.Sincerely, Marcia GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.
RE: [newbie] Modem's busy
Bob Said: "I found an internal modem that works with Linux. It is a "ActionTec 56K Internal PCI Call Waiting Modem". On the box it says it supports Linux and was under $70 at WalMart..." There's another one at www.compgeeks.com - can't remember brand, but they've tested and found it works A-OK. Barry
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No offense, Barry, but even though it has a linux driver available, I don't think I'd be suggesting a winmodem to anyone. I think that's just asking for trouble. I'm just a newbi, linux wise, but have read many tales of woe. BobC - Original Message - From: "Barry Allan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 4:13 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Modem's busy Bob Said: "I found an internal modem that works with Linux. It is a "ActionTec 56K Internal PCI Call Waiting Modem". On the box it says it supports Linux and was under $70 at WalMart..." There's another one at www.compgeeks.com - can't remember brand, but they've tested and found it works A-OK. Barry
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Hi Marcia, When you say your computer had(has) LinuxM7.2 I'm assuming you mean Linux Mandrake 7.2, right? And then you also have Suse 7... ok, now I have never tried Suse, and I'm pretty new to Mandrake, but why do you need both? I would just pick one and concentrate on getting that one working right, but if you do want to keep both I think you should be able to do that depending on how you partition the drive. And if you wanted to get rid of one you might think about how you want to partition that old space, so either way it sounds like you should look at your partition tables using something like DiskDrake. And if you do want to keep both check your lilo/grub conf. settings. - jim On 11/26/00 3:49 PM, Marcia L Waller spoke the words: Dear All, I installed Suse 7 a couple of days ago and it was sharing my computer with LinuxM7.2.Something I did in there made it impossible to boot back into Linux7.2. I had to reinstall Linux 7.2 Also, I made the mistake of trying to setup my internet in Suse and I think it stole my serial port or i/o or whatever because now I cannot get on the net with Linux7.2. I was on the net without a problem before with Linux 7.2. I have set up everything I can however it says my modem is busy and that there is no card found even though I have it set up as it was before in the /etc/modules.conf file and with linux conference. One benefit I got though is now my Mp'3 play great in LinuxM7.2 and they did not before. Does anyone have any suggestions? I am thinking of removing Suse and hopefully that will get my internet up in Linux7.2 again. What would be the best way to do this? Thank you very much for your help.Sincerely, Marcia
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On Sunday 26 November 2000 20:28, you wrote: Hi Marcia, When you say your computer had(has) LinuxM7.2 I'm assuming you mean Linux Mandrake 7.2, right? And then you also have Suse 7... ok, now I have never tried Suse, and I'm pretty new to Mandrake, but why do you need both? I would just pick one and concentrate on getting that one working right, but if you do want to keep both I think you should be able to do that depending on how you partition the drive. And if you wanted to get rid of one you might think about how you want to partition that old space, so either way it sounds like you should look at your partition tables using something like DiskDrake. And if you do want to keep both check your lilo/grub conf. settings. - jim On 11/26/00 3:49 PM, Marcia L Waller spoke the words: Dear All, I installed Suse 7 a couple of days ago and it was sharing my computer with LinuxM7.2.Something I did in there made it impossible to boot back into Linux7.2. I had to reinstall Linux 7.2 Also, I made the mistake of trying to setup my internet in Suse and I think it stole my serial port or i/o or whatever because now I cannot get on the net with Linux7.2. I was on the net without a problem before with Linux 7.2. I have set up everything I can however it says my modem is busy and that there is no card found even though I have it set up as it was before in the /etc/modules.conf file and with linux conference. One benefit I got though is now my Mp'3 play great in LinuxM7.2 and they did not before. Does anyone have any suggestions? I am thinking of removing Suse and hopefully that will get my internet up in Linux7.2 again. What would be the best way to do this? Thank you very much for your help.Sincerely, Marcia I agree with Jim, stick to one distro until you get a strong basic knowledge of linux then move on. Mandrake is sometimes not the best to start out with because you get dependent in all these wizards. I have to make an effort to learn to do things from the command line because eventually I'll need to use them. -- Eddie Torres www.veloct.net
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what kind of computer do you have... what are the specs what kind of BIOS (manufacturer,year etc.) check inside bios settings for a onboard com2 setting it might be turned offso that com1 would work for the modem. what com port is your mouse on...? need all this info to help. Dennis Myers wrote: Been there, done that, no joy. I have tried almost all of the IRQ and com settings visavis ttyS* settings and can't get it to come up in 7.1 or 7.2, but it does function nicely in Windows. It worked well a few days back in linux, but something in the Bios(?) has changed. I can not seem to get a grip on it. I don't think it is in linux because in changing from 7.1 to 7.2 I did a clean install after having wiped the hd and reformated all partitions during install. I am about to try an upgrade hoping that that will by accident fix this problem and stalling on shutdown at "Turning off quotas". I don't have much hope, but it is worth a try. I'll try to remember to post the results. Dennis M. KompuKit wrote: first of allmodems are always commonly hooked up on com 2 some times on com3 and 4but hardly never on com1 this is the first time...I've ever heard of a modem hooked up as com1 the mouse is supposed to use com 1...try setting it up on com2 and I bet it works lug, reconfig, etc. To no avail. The modem is plugged into com1 i.e. ttyS0 and works in windows, but no response in 7.2. It does not show up in harddrake either. Any suggestions out there. Oh, I am on the Linux only box right now using a Best Data internal modem which also works very well and says Linux compatable on the box. Thanks for any help with this puzzle. -- Registered Linux User:167369 =KompuKit= Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lowell, Mass. Web Designerhttp://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M - F 6pm-12am, S S 12pm-12am EST) =KompuKit= -- Registered Linux User:167369 =KompuKit= Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lowell, Mass. Web Designerhttp://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M - F 6pm-12am, S S 12pm-12am EST) =KompuKit=
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On Saturday 25 November 2000 08:36 pm, KompuKit wrote: what are you some kind of nutCOURSE they will give me ONE external that won't work with linux... comeon, just one OK, but remember you asked for it ; WM = WinModem ; FELTAI-34235-M5-E AOpen FM56-USB, Taicom MST56U, External USB modem, SmartLink HSP chipset http://www.kcdata.com/~gromitkc/20001122b.html -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 25 November 2000 02:30 pm, KompuKit wrote: to be safe...just buy a EXTERNAL modem... all of them will work. this is just plain WRONG nonsense -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Modem's busy
O, sorry...I should of explained better you're right...I should of said, that "MOST" all external modems will work, provided they are ISA's with jumpers. However, with the new kernels coming out...they are supporting more usb's,and for that matter, alot of PCI's Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 25 November 2000 08:36 pm, KompuKit wrote: what are you some kind of nutCOURSE they will give me ONE external that won't work with linux... comeon, just one OK, but remember you asked for it ; WM = WinModem ; FELTAI-34235-M5-E AOpen FM56-USB, Taicom MST56U, External USB modem, SmartLink HSP chipset http://www.kcdata.com/~gromitkc/20001122b.html -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 25 November 2000 02:30 pm, KompuKit wrote: to be safe...just buy a EXTERNAL modem... all of them will work. this is just plain WRONG nonsense -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay -- Registered Linux User:167369 =KompuKit= Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lowell, Mass. Web Designerhttp://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M - F 6pm-12am, S S 12pm-12am EST) =KompuKit=
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On Saturday 25 November 2000 02:30 pm, KompuKit wrote: to be safe...just buy a EXTERNAL modem... all of them will work. this is just plain WRONG nonsense -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
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Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 25 November 2000 02:30 pm, KompuKit wrote: to be safe...just buy a EXTERNAL modem... all of them will work. this is just plain WRONG nonsense -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay no , this is not nonsense. external modems work quite well with linux. i also want to share with everyone a way to make your printer work. i am using a panasonice laser jet. there is a driver in 7.2 for it. after installing it my printer was acting crazy. continually printing pages over and over. i uninstalled the driver finally , shut down the computer and rebooted. i also turned off the printer. i started kde and reinstalled the driver. printer works fine now. i just love linux :)
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patrick wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 25 November 2000 02:30 pm, KompuKit wrote: to be safe...just buy a EXTERNAL modem... all of them will work. this is just plain WRONG nonsense -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay no , this is not nonsense. external modems work quite well with linux. i also want to share with everyone a way to make your printer work. i am using a panasonice laser jet. there is a driver in 7.2 for it. after installing it my printer was acting crazy. continually printing pages over and over. i uninstalled the driver finally , shut down the computer and rebooted. i also turned off the printer. i started kde and reinstalled the driver. printer works fine now. i just love linux :) I agree with the external modems work in linux. I have a Best Data ext Modem that worked very well until recently. It still works in windows but I keep getting a "Modem does not respond". I have tried to reset, unplug, reconfig, etc. To no avail. The modem is plugged into com1 i.e. ttyS0 and works in windows, but no response in 7.2. It does not show up in harddrake either. Any suggestions out there. Oh, I am on the Linux only box right now using a Best Data internal modem which also works very well and says Linux compatable on the box. Thanks for any help with this puzzle.
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Huh? In general, do all external modems work well with Linux? patrick wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 25 November 2000 02:30 pm, KompuKit wrote: to be safe...just buy a EXTERNAL modem... all of them will work. this is just plain WRONG nonsense -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay no , this is not nonsense. external modems work quite well with linux. i also want to share with everyone a way to make your printer work. i am using a panasonice laser jet. there is a driver in 7.2 for it. after installing it my printer was acting crazy. continually printing pages over and over. i uninstalled the driver finally , shut down the computer and rebooted. i also turned off the printer. i started kde and reinstalled the driver. printer works fine now. i just love linux :)
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Romanator wrote: Huh? In general, do all external modems work well with Linux? [snip] Romanwith a stipulation. It must be a conventional external modem in that it plugs into one of the conventional com ports (not usb, some usb modems, it seems have turned out to be of the winmodem persuasion). :-) -- Alan
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On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, you wrote: patrick wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 25 November 2000 02:30 pm, KompuKit wrote: to be safe...just buy a EXTERNAL modem... all of them will work. this is just plain WRONG nonsense -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay no , this is not nonsense. external modems work quite well with linux. i also want to share with everyone a way to make your printer work. i am using a panasonice laser jet. there is a driver in 7.2 for it. after installing it my printer was acting crazy. continually printing pages over and over. i uninstalled the driver finally , shut down the computer and rebooted. i also turned off the printer. i started kde and reinstalled the driver. printer works fine now. i just love linux :) I agree with the external modems work in linux. I have a Best Data ext Modem that worked very well until recently. It still works in windows but I keep getting a "Modem does not respond". I have tried to reset, unplug, reconfig, etc. To no avail. The modem is plugged into com1 i.e. ttyS0 and works in windows, but no response in 7.2. It does not show up in harddrake either. Any suggestions out there. Oh, I am on the Linux only box right now using a Best Data internal modem which also works very well and says Linux compatable on the box. Thanks for any help with this puzzle. try ttys1.his might be it and then in ppp query the modem. hope that helps -- Love is all u need
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what are you some kind of nutCOURSE they will give me ONE external that won't work with linux... comeon, just one Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 25 November 2000 02:30 pm, KompuKit wrote: to be safe...just buy a EXTERNAL modem... all of them will work. this is just plain WRONG nonsense -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay -- Registered Linux User:167369 =KompuKit= Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lowell, Mass. Web Designerhttp://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M - F 6pm-12am, S S 12pm-12am EST) =KompuKit=
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On Saturday 25 November 2000 07:51 pm, patrick wrote: er 2000 02:30 pm, KompuKit wrote: to be safe...just buy a EXTERNAL modem... all of them will work. this is just plain WRONG nonsense Tom Brinkman no , this is not nonsense. external modems work quite well with linux. OK, I missed puttin a space between 'non' and 'sense' Mea culpa! Mea culpa! *ALL* external modems won't work with OS's other than M$! IMO, the ready answer of "get an external modem" is _bad_ advice. My reasons are: 1) there's a lot of sorry motherboards out there that don't work with serial devices any better than they do with anything (eg, anything Pc Chips, ready mades like dell, gateway, compaq,... etc.). 2) all externals modems aren't serial, many now are USB (as in Uncle'S Billy), and they're often very difficult to setup. Plus 4) (my unfavorite number is 3 ;) Some external modems are WINmodems! Yes, it's true, there's a few out there. 5) There's very good internal hardware modems available, both ISA and PCI bus.http://www.kcdata.com/~gromitkc/winmodem.html 6) 'hardware modems' @ pricewatch.com, internal/PCI start at $17 Best, if you can find one is a Phoebe/TX Instruments PCI Internal, $50 (I'd recommend a NON-voice modem) 7) Who wants another box an' a bunch of wires on their desk ?? 8) I'd end up spill'n beer all over an external anyhow even if i gave up my ash tray :p ; -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
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On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, you wrote: Huh? In general, do all external modems work well with Linux? external modems are real modems, just like linux is a real operating system. penguins can be a little honary sometimes though patrick wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 25 November 2000 02:30 pm, KompuKit wrote: to be safe...just buy a EXTERNAL modem... all of them will work. this is just plain WRONG nonsense -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay no , this is not nonsense. external modems work quite well with linux. i also want to share with everyone a way to make your printer work. i am using a panasonice laser jet. there is a driver in 7.2 for it. after installing it my printer was acting crazy. continually printing pages over and over. i uninstalled the driver finally , shut down the computer and rebooted. i also turned off the printer. i started kde and reinstalled the driver. printer works fine now. i just love linux :) -- Love is all u need
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Dennis Myers wrote: patrick wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 25 November 2000 02:30 pm, KompuKit wrote: to be safe...just buy a EXTERNAL modem... all of them will work. this is just plain WRONG nonsense -- I agree with the external modems work in linux. I have a Best Data ext Modem that worked very well until recently. It still works in windows but I keep getting a "Modem does not respond". I have tried to reset, unplug, reconfig, etc. To no avail. The modem is plugged into com1 i.e. ttyS0 and works in windows, but no response in 7.2. It does not show up in harddrake either. Any suggestions out there. Oh, I am on the Linux only box right now using a Best Data internal modem which also works very well and says Linux compatable on the box. Thanks for any help with this puzzle. On the subject of external modems, beware USB modems. Dennis, I had a modem seem to stop working once in Mandrake. It was a single boot machine so I didnt get to try windows. I finally traced it down to a single ` having turned into a '. or vice versa, in my chat-script. No idea how it happened but it fixed it right up. I remember digging through log files till I got a clue but its been a while and I dont remember much more than that. If you figure it out, post what you did. Sounds like a real bear! Gene
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first of allmodems are always commonly hooked up on com 2 some times on com3 and 4but hardly never on com1 this is the first time...I've ever heard of a modem hooked up as com1 the mouse is supposed to use com 1...try setting it up on com2 and I bet it works Dennis Myers wrote: patrick wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 25 November 2000 02:30 pm, KompuKit wrote: to be safe...just buy a EXTERNAL modem... all of them will work. this is just plain WRONG nonsense -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay no , this is not nonsense. external modems work quite well with linux. i also want to share with everyone a way to make your printer work. i am using a panasonice laser jet. there is a driver in 7.2 for it. after installing it my printer was acting crazy. continually printing pages over and over. i uninstalled the driver finally , shut down the computer and rebooted. i also turned off the printer. i started kde and reinstalled the driver. printer works fine now. i just love linux :) I agree with the external modems work in linux. I have a Best Data ext Modem that worked very well until recently. It still works in windows but I keep getting a "Modem does not respond". I have tried to reset, unplug, reconfig, etc. To no avail. The modem is plugged into com1 i.e. ttyS0 and works in windows, but no response in 7.2. It does not show up in harddrake either. Any suggestions out there. Oh, I am on the Linux only box right now using a Best Data internal modem which also works very well and says Linux compatable on the box. Thanks for any help with this puzzle. -- Registered Linux User:167369 =KompuKit= Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lowell, Mass. Web Designerhttp://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M - F 6pm-12am, S S 12pm-12am EST) =KompuKit=
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I found an internal modem that works with Linux. It is a "ActionTec 56K Internal PCI Call Waiting Modem". On the box it says it supports Linux and was under $70 at WalMart. I had my doubts but I bought it to try it and I'm using it right now. I have had no problems with it at all. I have not tried the call waiting portion, nor do I expect to because I don't plan to have call waiting. The 7.2 install didn't recognize it but the modem manual was clear on how to manually setup the modem. Bob Romanator wrote: Alan Shoemaker wrote: Romanator wrote: Huh? In general, do all external modems work well with Linux? [snip] Romanwith a stipulation. It must be a conventional external modem in that it plugs into one of the conventional com ports (not usb, some usb modems, it seems have turned out to be of the winmodem persuasion). :-) -- Alan That's what I was thinking. Hey, nice to hear from you. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293
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Hi Victor, I'm getting the same "modem is busy" message in Linux-mandrake7.1. I believe the reason to be because I have a "soft" modem which is not supported by Linux O.S. Like you I'm a complete newbie [only 18 months with Windows 98] and the only solution that occurs to me is to change the modem. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable will be able to give us both an opinion on this through the list. Regards Clive Deeming. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Victor BozhenkoSent: 22 November 2000 21:00To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Modem's busy Hi everybody! Does anybody know how to deal with following trouble: Ive installed Mandrake 7, when trying to get online it comes with message modem is busy. I havent start any pro which would use modem. Victor. PS. Please, treat me like newbie! While reading the post, Ive found that your definition of newbie is some kind different than what I thought of it. I AM TOTALLY NEW TO LINUX! And 9 years of windows experience dont help much!
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That could be 1 reason and if that is the case you may find help at linmodem.org. Depending upon what chipset your modem uses you may be able to find a driver module there. There are other possible reasons. 1) Your modem is set to the wrong port in kppp 2) There is an IRQ conflict between your modem and another device in your system To help you we will need more info. What is Brand and model # of your modem? Is it an externel or internal (PCI or ISA) modem? How do you now have kppp configured? Charles - Original Message - From: "Clive Deeming" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2000 2:04 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Modem's busy Hi Victor, I'm getting the same "modem is busy" message in Linux-mandrake7.1. I believe the reason to be because I have a "soft" modem which is not supported by Linux O.S. Like you I'm a complete newbie [only 18 months with Windows 98] and the only solution that occurs to me is to change the modem. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable will be able to give us both an opinion on this through the list. Regards Clive Deeming. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Victor Bozhenko Sent: 22 November 2000 21:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Modem's busy Hi everybody! Does anybody know how to deal with following trouble: I've installed Mandrake 7, when trying to get online it comes with message "modem is busy". I haven't start any pro which would use modem. Victor. PS. Please, treat me like newbie! While reading the post, I've found that your definition of newbie is some kind different than what I thought of it. I AM TOTALLY NEW TO LINUX! And 9 years of windows experience don't help much!
