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I've just managed to download and install Fedora Linux Core 2 Test 3 onto my dell dimension 4800.
Unhappily the internal winmodem, broadcom v.92 56k voicemodem, was not detected by fedora, even thought all the sound card, graphics card and even the network card were all picked up.
I knew this would be a problem, but I somewhat foolishly thought I would be able to get source code with simple instructions or maybe even (blasphemy of blasphemies) a nice little binary file.
I've searched aplenty and come up with nothing so I', coming out of my lurker shell and begging you all for help.
Does anyone know How to get the broadcom v92 modem to work with fedora C2t3.
I'm a long time dos/windows user so heavy linspeak will be quite lost on me I'm afraid. this is one of the reasons I'm trying to migrate to linux.
If it is a hardware modem, just try out the various serial ports in your dialing program and see if you can find it (com1=/dev/ttyS0, com2=/dev/ttyS1, ...). If it is a winmodem (it prob. is), you will need to get the drivers for it if there are any. See www.linmodems.org . There is a tool there for checking if there's a driver for your modem.
It is a winmodem. i ran the scanModem program from linmodems and it gave me four (very cryptic) text files and told me what I already knew, that the modem is a broadcom 56k.
I can't believe that no-one else has run across this problem before.
Isn't there an easier option than crawling through those text files?
Forget it. I've been looking for three days straight and no luck. It seems this modem does not, cannot and will not run under linux of any description.
I guess linux was just a pipe dream after all. Looks like I'm stuck with what evryone else has.
I have tried to install this driver but have run into difficulties.
I have a Dell Inspiron 9100 and I am running Fedora Core 1.
The RPM installs the source files to /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES but after that when you try and run Makefiles and so on it becomes more than I am able to deal with. Beyond my expertise.
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