modem installation
 

i need help to install my modem

i have prolink modem and it runs fine in winxp.
now i have installed fedora core 8 and need to install it so that
i can access my internet connection.

so anyone knows how to setup modem in fedora core 8 plz reply soon.

Is this an internal or external modem?

If internal - then it is most likely some form of WINModem - which is to say, a modem designed by the vendor to be used only with Windows.

Fortunately, many of these modems have been reverse engineered to work with gnuLinux. To use them, you need to identify the chipset of the modem - the manufacturer designations are useless.

To identify the chipset, you need a script called "scanModem" available from the linmodem website.

Run the script (the link has instructions) and post the content of the ModemData.txt file it produces.

ya my modem is internal prolink modem.

so, it means i must need to run the scripts?

ok i will.

You seem to be having trouble with your "shift" key and some of the punctuation. Here, I'll help:
Yes.Also read that page.

When you download the scanModem package, you will have to extract the script, rename it to "scanModem" if it isn't already, make it executable, and execute it as root.

[rant]
Vendors go through a lot of trouble to make up for Windows' almost non-existent HW support. While gnu/linux HW support is second-to-none, some drivers cannot be included by default for legal reasons.

But you just try using that modem on a mac!

If you install OSX to a PC, is it still a PC? Has it suddenly become a Mac? (OSX will run on i686 architecture, so it's a valid question.) If "PC" means "Windows on intel or AMD architecture" then we need a different name for a linux box. LC?

Mac HW will not run under Windows. Windows HW will not run under a Mac. So why are we puzzled when Windows HW doesn't run under Linux? Technically we need Linux shops selling linux hardware. Just like Apple has for their stuff.

Instead we've gone the other way - Linux is the only kernel which endeavors to support the hardware. Everyone else does it the other way around. (vis - the hardware supports the OS.)

[Technically, "PC" should refer to the hardware only. Then you can have a Mac-PC, a Win-PC, a Lin-PC, a BSD-PC and a Sol-PC. Suddenly it's logical.][/rant]