O.K. I sure do love the hardware forums ... anyhow my good freind has a dual-boot setup much like my own where in two seperate HDDs and TWO operating systems (XP bro on 0 and SUSE 10 on 1) ok so he's got everything working all the drivers installed and he loves it! The poor guy is still on dial-up and has to use his phone modem yet for some strange an I do mean strange reason his PCI modem. a U.S. Robotics V.92 56K fax modem won't work at all. He's more of a newb to Linux than I am and since we do live a few hours apart it's tough for me to get down there and help him out so I lean on my good freind here at LQ to lend a helping hand. I must say this is the best site to learn anything about Linux and you hardware guys might even help some of the Windows crowd with your knowledge inadvertantly .. anyhow, I'm not sure what hardware details you'll need but that's the basics. Again, thanks in advance y'all RULE! - Bug

Tell your friend to click on the Kde menu button (left end of the tray), then YaST2 modules -> Network devices -> Modem. Go through the setup. If any errors pop up, take note of them and post them here.

USB modens dont work well with linux and if you get it working it will never work as well as it did in windows


if you need dail up the a serial modem will do that job rember
that they are all hardware modems with an easy interface that is easy for linux and windows to command

the reasion for these silly USB modems and many if not all PCI cards is that they use computer programs to take a way electronic hardware that cost the consuma letting the computer doing some of the work and tend to be smaller to and cheeper [ some times they may say hardware moden PCI or USB, just egnore them ] often called
winmodems

O.K. had him run through the modem and connection confuguration and no eorrs to speak of (that I know of) but my freind can't seem to figure out how to dial-out, So maybe we should talk a little bit about how to use a dial-up connection? I don't know it aperently sees his modem and he's set up all the setting to speak of yet he can't get connected .. so being the middle man here I hope I am not confusing the issue? - Bug

thanks for the info ... FYI it's a U.S. Robotics PCI modem that resides in the of the PCI slots ... I wil lcheck the thrift stores and yard sales for a good serial modem ... this is a budject project as my freind has a very limited finance availabe to his computer projects oh well thank goodness he didn't have to pay the $300 plus for XP Pro ... thanks guys

Two things: First - Not all U.S. Robotics Modems are compatible with Suse Linux 10. For a listing please go to this website: http://cdb.novell.com
once there do an express search - modems and view the list.

Secondly U.S. Robotics external modems do not come with a cable in the box. If the model number of the U.S. Robotics modem that you have is on the Website's list as a compatible modem, then more than likely the cable is the wrong cable.

I bought a U.S. Robotics model 5686 and was given the name of a serial cable that they recommended but could not find one anywhere. I bought a serial cable made in China at J&R in New York City and it worked just fine. Good Luck!!

is it the performance pro model because if it's not it should not work in Linux the performance pro is the only USR modem that is not a win modem. Most win modems are not compatible with Linux.

If it is a performance pro then tell him to try higher com port ...the performance pros tend to go to high com port numbers in Linux ...if I remember correctly it uses a com port in the teens.

An example being that /dev/ttyS12 is com port 13

/dev/ttyS13 is com port 14

/dev/ttyS14 is com port 15

/dev/ttyS15 is com port 16

rember to buy a serial modem "bug" and no USB or PCI devices I must stress this


have a look hear

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=62632