topic Re: Modem doesnt detect, please help in Operating System - Linux

Modem doesnt detect, please help

Sharfuddin — Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:37:36 GMT

I have "3COM PCI 56K WinModem", but in RedHat it does not detect. what shuold I do to detect my modem, please help.
And o yes, pleae kindly also let me know, what is this "winmodem". I mean I have never heard "WinPrinter", or "WinNIC" etc, then what and why is this "WinModem".

Thanking in anticipation.

Sharf

Re: Modem doesnt detect, please help

Mark Grant — Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:43:23 GMT

winmodems, winprinters etc are cheap hardware devices that don't have all their clever things in hardware. Instead, the operating system does all the work thus slowing your machine down rather unnecesarily. Sadly, the "Win" part of the name does as it suggests, ie, needs Windows. Unfortunately Linux does not support winmodems very well but there is some hope.

Try this site

http://www.linmodems.org/

Re: Modem doesnt detect, please help

Umapathy S — Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:46:14 GMT

Oh you hit on a iceberg on a cold pitch black night.

Winmodems are "kind of modems" that rely on software signals rather than normal harware modems. They delegate most of the work to the processor.

To support them in Linux is hard because there is no standard interface with those modems. Every manufacturer has its own implementation.

http://linmodems.org/
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Winmodems-and-Linux-HOWTO.html

Meanwhile I can get back to you on that 3COM modem.

Check also http://www.tuxmobil.org/mylaptops.html if you have this on a laptop by anychance

Umapathy

Re: Modem doesnt detect, please help

Gerard Leclercq — Wed, 25 Feb 2004 02:19:13 GMT

Last time, I have installed a winmodem driver on my own PC with redhat 7.3.

I downloaded this driver from www.linuxant.com/drivers.

Installation very simple.

Working very fine.

Gerard