I have an older laptop, an HP Omnibook 4150.

Need recommendations for a Linux pcmcia card modem. Is there anything available that is NOT a winmodem? Prefer one that doesn't need drivers.

Thanks.....Dutch

I use a "Practical peripherals proclass" Model # 5353US Version 4M40
on my old (75mz) laptop with no problems. Worked right out of the box on Slackware 8.1. Hope this helps

i believe most PCMCIA card modems are actually hardware modems.. get one and try it.. or.. if you can (you said it was old) try SUSE 9.2 Professional... This was the first and only distro to EVER recognize my internal softmodem on my HP Pavilion notebook... and multimedia support is absolutely fantastic!!! supports everything from MP3, MPEG, to Real-Player, Flash, JAVA, etc.. out-of-the-box...

Just look through the package list during install because it's not all checked to install by default... and of course, you don't HAVE to install KDE if you have low hardware... WindowMaker looks great with SUSE, and it installs a ton of themes

good luck!

I have a Fedora Core Distro of Linux on my laptop and i have downloaded ScanModem onto it but although it would unzip i cant make it executable. How to i go about doing this?

When you unzipped it, it should have created a directory such as "program/version name " enter that directory, look for readme, install, etc. files. these will show you what you need to do.

This is my first time on a linux sytem and it seems that you need to know alot about modems and linux to get either of them to work properly. Would you be able to tell me of somewhere to go that would help me with my modem problems?

Try :

www.linux.com

They have an excellent "how to" section . Also do a search on this site, lots of info here. Hope this helps.

How do you transfer files files from Linux onto Windows without burning (my burner wont work under Linux) Without USB (NOt working) Without Diskette (Don't Have one) and without serial ports.
Can you just Kinda cut and paste from one partition to the next or what do you do.
Thanks!

What type files are you wanting to transfer???

It is a txt file. To be exact it is ModemData.txt

OK, that file is the output from the scanmodem program, correct?
And I'm going out on a limb here, the reason you want to move it to Windows is so you can post it on the web to get help?
If that's the case, I would use fireftp (firefox browser extension) or an ftp client in windows and download it from your linux box. That's my .02 and I would suggest waiting in hopes that someone who has done something similar posts a reply., as my windows knowledge is for all intents and purposes non-existent.
Good luck.

i dont really know what you just told me to do. but i dont think it matters anymore cus i just typed out the whole file. i hope to god now that someone will help and i will finally be able to connect to the net with linux.
thnks anywho dude.

Possible ways to read Linux data when running Win:

If they are both on the same machine and a linux partition is formatted with ext2 or ext3, download an ext2fs driver for Win (e.g. sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd) to at least read files from a Linux partition. Perhaps there exists drivers for other Linux file-systems too, try a google if you need them. With the driver above you can explore the linux partitions similar to normal win partitions.

If they are on different machines connected via LAN, download e.g. Putty SFTP (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~s.../download.html) to connect from Win to your Linux box and 'get' files. Make sure that a ftp daemon is running on the Linux box. Or you create a share on the Linux box with Samba - you could access it from Win like normal Win shares, but that's a bit more tricky.