motorola sm56 internal modem- not detected..

kiru · 04-08-2003, 02:41 PM

i installed redhat linux 8.0 (psyche) 2 days ago. everything is okey except these two unfortunate things--

(1) my modem is not detected. ( motorola sm56 speaker phone-internal modem).
do i need to download the driver? if yes, from where?
i can download it with windows, but how cud i get that in linux partition?

(2) xmms media player can't play mp3 files. but the sound card is ok. i can hear the system sounds perfectly.
is it any problem with plug ins?

please help me for this worrying problems. i'm quite new to linux. infact, this is my first experience with linux.

details of my system-
p111 667MHz processor 133 bus.
intel 815EEA mother board.
128 ram
20 gb HDD. (15gb for win 98 and 5gb for linux).

thanku
kiru

Proud · 04-08-2003, 02:46 PM

RedHat comes without mp3 support. You have to download some simple plugin I believe, but I've never had to deal with that in Mandrake

Try rpmfind.net
Normally you can mount your other hard drive partitions, definately including windows ones. Again Mandrake did this automatically for me

james.farrow · 04-09-2003, 06:41 AM

This may help with yoyr modem:-
http://www.linmodems.org/
And MP3 support at:-
http://www.xmms.org
Hope this helps

poison5151 · 04-09-2003, 07:38 AM

if u download something in windows u can use the following command to get it in linux --
mkdir /mnt/win
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win
replace hda1 with whatever partition your windows os is in. to get the files just browse to /mnt/win and you will be able to get all of them

kiru · 04-09-2003, 01:59 PM

thanks to all for the info..
i solved the xmms problem. but the modem problem is still there

Proud · 04-09-2003, 02:10 PM

http://www.google.com/linux?hl=en&lr...=Google+Search

praveen_2003 · 04-10-2003, 07:58 AM

u can get drivers for motorola in www.motorola.com

juby · 05-10-2003, 06:31 AM

try http://www.sm56.tk for latest drivers

darius · 07-08-2003, 11:15 PM

to get a download from a windows98 partition(fat32) to a linux partition(ext2 or ext3), you have to mount the fat32 partition by:
1) find out which hd# is the fat32 partition, here I'll call it XX
2) create a directory in /mnt called hdaXX
3) edit /etc/fstab by adding the following line:
/dev/hdaXX /mnt/hdaXX vfat noauto,owner,users 00

Then if you download a driver or app for linux using Win98, you can reboot with linux and find it somewher in /mnt/hdaXX, but to be safe, I would copy it into a folder in your home directory and install it from there.
This worked for me, thanks to Depape, hope it works for you.