win modem

haqinai · 06-12-2002, 01:12 PM

I cantt seem to get my win modem to work. i followed the install instructions that cam with the driver, but it still does not want to work. what should i do?????

i am ruunning suse 7.0

if i up grade to suse 8.0 will this help?

Mara · 06-12-2002, 03:53 PM

Upgrade can help. Look into the driver documentation and look if there's somathing about distros it works correctly. Maybe doesn't with 7.0 but works with 8.0. I don't know, because I don't know which model you have...

haqinai · 06-12-2002, 06:38 PM

i have a toshiba satellite 1715xcds

it is a Lucent Win Modem
pci\ven_11c1&dev_0450&subsys_4005144f

Mara · 06-13-2002, 02:48 PM

Where did you take your drivers from? I mean, which version is it, etc.

mjrich · 06-13-2002, 05:30 PM

Best to get the drivers from http://www.heby.de. There's an archive with the sources, plus packages for SuSE, Debian etcetera. They should work first time (well, they did for me

Also... don't forget to check out http://www.linmodems.org and http://www.linux-laptop.net.

Cheers,

Mj

twk · 06-13-2002, 05:51 PM

I remembered that in the past(couple years ago) win modem doesn't work with linux, is that still the case?

mjrich · 06-13-2002, 06:34 PM

Hi twk,

Most winmodems work perfectly with linux these days. Check the above links if you need to more info on specific ones. (Lucent is pretty well covered at least).

Mj

Mara · 06-15-2002, 06:42 AM

But stil there are some (well, many) that does not work. So you should still be careful when buying.