I got Red Hat Linux 9 the other day (2.4.20-20.9) and I have been enjoying it with one exception. This computer is a laptop and it has a built-in Winmodem. I'd prefer to use it instead of an external one, but I've had no luck and can't even remember most of what I've done so far trying to make it work.

I look under the Device Manager under Windows and it tells me it's an Agere build. However, when I ran the Connexant thing to see more specifically, here's what I got:

I couldn't seem to get scanModem to run (it would just stop moving... or maybe I gave up too quickly) and using cat /proc/pci gave me something along the lines of "Intel 82801DB AC'97 (rev 3), IRQ11." There might have been more.

Please help me so I can begin to actually USE Linux.

Thanks!

- Trip

Use Suse 9.0 on a toshiba and your modem will work. As well as all the extra acpi features...

hi trip ihave the same modem and want to know if you got yours to work ihave a hp notebook nx7010

Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB AC'97 Modem
8086:24c6 PCI_ID of the PCI bus with vendor: 8086
1179:0001 PCI_ID of Subsystem with vendor: 1179

An AC'97 or MC97 controller cooperates with the modem Subsystem
8086:24c6 INTEL ICH4 +

Vendor=1179 is Toshiba, using some motherboards with soft modems.
Vendor=8086 is Intel, Inc. producing HaM and 536ep host controller free (HCF) modems, the 537 soft modem and AC'97 and MC97 controllers managing a varierty of non-Intel soft modem subSystems.
These subSystems will in have PCI_IDs assigned by the modem assembler, not Intel.

Some modems showing vendor_id 8086 (Intel) are supported by the new Conexant HSF driver.

HSF (softmodem) driver for the Conexant (formerly Rockwell) HSF Softmodem family:

INTEL AC-Link Controller (ICH)
# PCI ID 8086:24C6

Many vendors (such as Dell, HP, IBM, U.S. Robotics/3Com, etc..) have shipped modems based on Conexant modem chipsets.


O.k.... Now I'm just plain burned out from copy/pasting... You have enough of the scoop now.... Right? Anything that says AC'97 is a conexant chip and will work with Linuxant Drivers. Well, most of em anyway.. I have a:

00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem (rev 01)

and know what you are feeling... Linux isn't good for much when you first start out unless you can get online with it.... Otherwise, you'll find yourself back in Windows awfully quick... That link is the download page. You are supposed to click an "I agree" button before getting there so it may re-direct you. Just make sure you get to the HSF download page. Download the free driver(14.4k ) and see if all is well, besides the 40 seconds it takes to bring up a page... If so, cough up some cash and get a license key to 'unleash' your full modem potential(56k).... It's only 15 bucks... No biggie...

* Note: Fedora and RedHat users may find out their exact kernel architecture (which is not always the same as "uname -m" output) with the following case-sensitive shell command:

rpm -q --qf '%{ARCH}\n' kernel

Base the output from that command on which driver to download under the 'Redhat 9' list.... I use the tarball so I can get my modem running on ANY distro... Install it thru the command prompt.

cd /to/modem/driver
rpm -ivh drivername.rpm

I hate rpms... You never know what commands will work with each package.. It's like playing roulete with the rpm installer...

rpm -ivh
rpm -i
rpm -Uvh
rpm -iv
rpm -ih

Keep going until it decides it wants to... Then use /dev/modem for your device location in which ever dialer app you decide to use.... I should have just posted the link.... Sorry.

Jon