unfortunattley I am stuck useing a dialup modem which is a external serial &comport Zoom dual mode 56k modem model#2949L lucent chipset I have allready visited linmodems.org they said that all serial modems should work under Linux anyway this one is NOT it does not recognize my modem but when GRUB boots the indicator lights are working showing progress But when I get to the SYS I go too the menu and apply internet connection wizard from there the sys created a generic modem this driver is not working I went to ZOOM.com to see if they had drivers for linux couldn't find any I am very new to linux i was wondering if there is some type of command you can give the sys too see if that would help the sys to recognize the modem the reason I am asking this is because I had an issue with my video card so I had to go into VMLINUZ too get the video card to work can the same be done for modems?

try minicom, see if it can communicate with your modem

sorry but i do not know what minicom is ? is it a test driver that you can download I am extremally new to linux and how do I install minicom if it is a driver.

it is a program

It's a low-level communications program that can be used to connect to other computers with a modem/serial connection, but in this instance, is more useful as a test-bed to see if your modem is being detected properly.

Ok I downloaded minicom to disk ? how do I install ,I went too the sys menu the only thing I could find was Harddisk formatter but when I tryed it sys ask if I want to format disk if I am not mistakein that would overwrite the program.So how do I open the floppy disk in Linux or better yet how do I do the install sorry I have been a windows slave hopeing to break free of the darkside.......

It should already have been installed on your system...

you have to mount the floppy if you have inserted the disk after you log into X. If you have the disk in the drive on startup, it should mount it automatically. If there is a floppy icon on your desktop, try right-clicking on it and see if there is an option to MOUNT. If there is, then click it to mount the drive. Konqueror should open a window upon mounting the device and show you the contents of the drive.

you downloaded it to a floppy?

ok, first see if you alredy have it

open an xterm or in a terminal type this...

minicom


if you get command not found or permission denied error login as root or use

su -

then try it

if it's not there then mount the floppy...

mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

cd /mnt/floppy

is it an rpm file, I hope so


run this...


rpm -iv filename

then run this...

minicom

Alternatively, check which com port it's on (if it's a serial device, it should normally be on ttyS0 or ttyS1) and try cating some hayes to it:
cat > /dev/ttyS0 and then type something like atz or atd 1234 and see how your modem responds. If it doesn't work for one, try the other.

ok I went into terminal mode and typed minicom this is the response minicom: there is no global configuration file/etc/minirc.dfl create one (with minicom -s) Then I went too the menu an found Disk management & used the user mount tool mount reaply (mount:I could not determine the file system type,and none was specified.

mount what?

minicom is on your system there is nothing to mount

run this...

minicom -s

it needs to create the config file

I'm not sure what all that mount stuff was but if you just open a command prompt somewhere and type this

mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

let me know if there are errors

OK, let's just back up here.

Minicom is a program that should already by on your system. You do not need to download it, you should not need to install it (unless it's not been installed from your CDs)... and this modem is a serial modem - i.e. it plugs into the serial socket on the back of your PC? It shouldn't matter if it has lucent chips on it - the serial port is not really fast enough for data to be transfered to the PC for software decoding, so it is (almost certainly - I may be proven wrong) going to be a hardware modem!

If you can't find minicom on your computer, then use the CAT command and pass some HAYES commands to the appropriate device - if you have Windows running on your machine, you can verify which com port the modem is on from there:

COM1 = /dev/ttyS0
COM2 = /dev/ttyS1
COM3 = /dev/ttyS3
COM4 = /dev/ttyS4

There should be no need to mount anything, to download anything, or to otherwise do anything else!

From linmodem, click the link for Contextext drivers, that will take you to a page that has an rpm package for Zoom type modems.