I have always been a Windows user, but it was my birthday last Sunday and for it I got SuSE 8 Pro, I thought it was about time I moved to try a UNIX based OS and decided to go with that distro of Linux.

I have never been much of a hardware person, being much more of a programmer than ever I knew about what my computer was actually made up of. Now, I need to get my modem working on suse, if at all possible without buying a new one. Here is all the modem stuff I can find on my computer:

MR Modem
Modem
Alloc resources: Logical Configuration 0
IRQ: 11 Mask: xFFFF
IO Range: Base=xDC00 End=xDCFF Min=x0000 Max=xFFFF Alias=xFF, Decode=x00
Base=xD800 End=xD87F Min=x0000 Max=xFFFF Alias=xFF, Decode=x00
Driver: slamrwd.inf
slclean.exe
slclean.ini
smcfg.exe 11/23/1999 4:12 PM Size: 49152
sllights.ini
sllights.exe 11/23/1999 4:11 PM Size: 372736
amr_cpl.dll 11/23/1999 4:12 PM Size: 139264
slcpappl.cpl 11/23/1999 4:11 PM Size: 188416
slamr.vxd 11/23/1999 4:12 PM Size: 129772
slextspk.dll 11/23/1999 4:12 PM Size: 184320
slld.vxd 11/23/1999 4:11 PM Size: 16017
v90drv.vxd 11/23/1999 4:12 PM Size: 483527
mtlhal.vxd 11/23/1999 4:11 PM Size: 81060
mtlstrm.vxd 11/23/1999 4:12 PM Size: 1593467
mtlfax.vxd 11/23/1999 4:11 PM Size: 129150
mtlport.vxd 11/23/1999 4:11 PM Size: 35489
mtlmdm.vxd 11/23/1999 4:11 PM Size: 48286


Sorry, but thats about as much as I know. I now have windows and suse on dual boot. I cant seem to be able to configure my modem to work, not that I know where to start. Id use Linux 80% of the time if I could use the net on it, but without its more like 15%.

If you need any other info, please ask, I know this sounds very vague, sorry.

-Crisp

start yast2 , select ->network/basic->modem configuration. yast will try to autodetect your modem. if SUSE detected your modem, select configure and follow the prompts. if your isp is not on the list(most aren't) choose ->custom->add, and fill in the phone number, username, etc.

if yast can't find your modem, then it's probably a winmodem. some winmodems can be made to work, but are not really worth the aggravation.

Yeah, I ended up there, and it didn't auto detect it, plus I'm pretty sure it is a winmodem.

I know there are ways to get them to work, could you or someone please try and give me an idea of how I'd go about doing this if it is indeed possible with mine, apart from directing me to linmodems?

If not, how much will a suse compatible modem set me back?

-Crisp

try www.linmodems.org that will tell u if u have a winmodem or not

Try to find out what kind of Modem u have. I have a c presario and u might have a connexant typemodem. If it is the case u hae drivers that u can download on the connexant site to make your modem run underLINUX. May i add that I am also running SUSE

If it is a pci modem it's pretty sure it is a winmodem. If that's the case just look up at the chipset in the modem card and go to www.linmodems.org and try to get the source code of the "drivers" for it. That source code will probably come with some scripts to help you installing your modem. That was just my case under RH6 and 7.2 and it IS just my case with SUSE 7.2.
Best Regards.

Do lspci -v in a terminal and post it here.