I've got mandrake 9.1 on my system but my winmodem won't work so I'm looking for a cheap linux compatible one, a PCI one that will also work for Win98. Any suggestions? Thanks.

what is ur existing modem anyway?

I had same problems with a winmodem and gave up. Using an old US Robotics Sportster that I had lying around in the bit bucket. This is an external job. Worked first time! Suggest you try the boot fairs, computer boot fairs etc. Should be able to pick one up for very little money.

Regards
Ashley

I have to concurr with buying an external one. Its so much easier to set up. Works out the box and they often are more reliable and way more features. Also the fact that they're external makes troubleshooting easier. No opening the case to check whether the card is rooted properly and flicking the on/off switch has saved me many a time when I couldn't get the thing to respond to init strings...

Alex

One winmodem is well supported and is presently being used by Microtel and Hewlett Packard in the linux boxes they are selling and they are Modems based on the Lucent/Agere LTmodem chipset. Who nows maybe the winmodem you have is a lucent modem. There are Redhat, Mandrake, Suse rpm, debian packages and source code available.

I would avoid conexant modems as the linux drivers now carry a $15.00 charge.

The bottom of this thread has links to the drivers and a place to purchase a cheap Lucent modem.Previous thread on Linux Supported Software modems

It is a lucent winmodem, but I don't really know anything else about it. I downloaded a modem checker file for linux from linmodems.org but I don't know how to execute it. I got it to linux by downloading it from windows, putting the file(scanmodem.gz) on a floppy, and then starting up linux. Unfortunately, I'm very new to Linux and after extractiong the file I don't know how to execute it.

is it still on your floppy?

Never used it myself but I'm assuming using it goes something llike this. Sorry if these instructions are too n00bified.

You'll need to do the following:

1.)mount the floppy disk. If you don't know how it will be along the following:2.) unzip the program. the .gz at the end tells us its been zipped up using the gzip program so to unzip it we use gunzip like so:3.) make the program executable. Since programs in Linux have permissions, we often need to tell programs we've downloaded to be exectuable. The following command will make the program executbale for the user of the program:notice how the gunzip program removed the .gz ending.

4.) run the program: HTH

Alex

Webtoe

Don't worry about it being too noobified. Quite the most useful reply I've seen for a while that explains how to do something in clear steps that took me quite a while to figure out.

Good on yer mate.

Ashley

My old winmodem used to do my nut in, I did everything to try to get the thing working, with no success.

Instead I went and bought a Hayes Accura V.92 External modem. Just plug it in and it works without a hitch.

The only problem is that it doesnt quite work up to the full V.92 spec, something I am looking into at the moment. But overall I have no complaints with it.

From what I gather on the report form scanmodem, mine's a Lucent/Agere dsp chipset with the PCI_ID 11c1:0441. It may be the third listed here: http://www.yourvote.com/pci/pciread.asp?venid=0x11C1 I thinik it's supported, but I don't know which drivers to download or anything. Thanks for all the help so far. I'm currently looking at an older post from a guy with the same modem as I and will try to follow the instructions given him. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...5&pagenumber=2

Here is the page you are looking for (took less than a second to find on google ) http://www.heby.de/ltmodem/

And here is what I think is your driver, but no guarantees
http://www.physcip.uni-stuttgart.de/...fs_info.tar.gz

Good luck

I think the above driver is for mandrake 8.1, I think your first post indicates you are using 9.1. The modem drivers are kernel specific but with mandrake it is very easy. The *.rpm file will fit on a 1.44 floppy and it is good to archive it on durable media. To pick the right one run uname -r and it should spit out the kernel you are using. Look for the EXACT same numbers in the modem driver and unless you have made a custom kernel the i586.

LTmodems for mandrake 9.0, 9.1 and cooker

Put the floppy in and then click on the floppy icon. It should mount the floppy (whirr, grind, etc) and then open a filemanager showing the contents of the floppy. Left click on the modem file and you should be promted to enter in root password to install the program. After it is installed go to your modem dialer program and set that up using /dev/modem.

Actually, as stated on the page I supplied, that driver is the source code :-P

But as always, with linmodems, If it don't work try try again. Most of it depends on the kernel he is running, where the modem is located, the actual chipset he has, the colour socks he's wearing ...

OK thanks guys, I got the right one and it installed fine, now how do I set it up? Drakconnect still says my modem isn't supported; I tried to run kppp by typing "/usr/bin/kppp" at the konsole, but it says the file doesn't exist. I then tried "ls /usr/bin/ and kppp wasn't on the long list of files. Now what?

Well, I got kppp installed off my discs. Now I'm haveing trouble connecting. I gave it my ISP info and at the connection box I click connect but it it says Modem Ready, then Initializing Modem, but it doesn't get any farther than that. I tried testing the modem with the modem querry button in kppp but all the ATI spaces are blank.