Okay, I live in the middle of nowhere and the only thing avalible is, you guessed it, our beloved Dial-Up.

Well I have a Conexant win-modem, the ones that only work with the-OS-that-should-not-be-named, and well, Lunexant drivers dont work! Actually, they might, SuSE just isnt detecting my modem at all


Let me organize this data a bit

Problem: Modem isnt recognized at all by SuSE

Kernel 2.6.13-15 default <SuSE 10.0>

GNOME desktop

2.0GHz/512MB RAM off-the-shelf cheapie.

Anyway, im a





So help me here guys, I could just pop in an old modem, I suppose, But I wanna learn linux, become an expert in it, compile in it, etc. etc..

Also if anyone has a link to a good website for linux resources/communities etc. thanxx

-Your friendly neighborhood Cards fan <Who threw the game for the astros - ::Firmly Believes::>

I got my Winmodem to work with SuSe 10 by doing the following:

Got cnxtinstall.run from Linuxant.com and ran it - the driver automatically compiled and the link was made to dev/modem.

In YAST, went to Network devices?, modem and added a modem, leaving it at the default of dev/modem.

Using Kinternet (not my favourite) was able to dial out.

Hope this helps.

(HP ZE4315 laptop)