Hello, I am sorry to disapoint you, but Apple put a so called "soft modem" into their latest iBooks which require special software drivers to function. (read: they are not hayes compliant)
Neither Conexant nor Apple have provided any specs on the modem so far for us to code up a linux driver for those modems. And it is not sure we will ever be able to. So, sorry, but for now, you won't be able to use the internal modem. Greetings, Olivier Reisch TuxPPC - http://www.tuxppc.org On Monday 25 February 2002 20:09, you wrote: > Hello, > > After trying all sorts of kernels (default Mandrake 8.2beta, default YDL > 2.1, BenH's 2.4.18-rc2) with macserial as a module, macserial built-in, > etc. I have come to the conclusion that... I need help. HELP!! > > Right, sorry for the hysterics. Basically I have macserial loaded, I > have grepped the /var/log/message and it appears that when the serial > ports are recognised (/dev/ttyS0 at irq28 I think), it should say (iBook > internal modem) or something similar. Only it does not. wvdialconf does > not detect any modem, ditto kppp (probing /dev/ttyS0, /dev/ttyS1 - or > /dev/tts/0, /dev/tts/1 with DevFS, as well as using /dev/modem linked to > the above, results in kPPP saying 'modem does not respond'). This is > with the device nodes being given permissions of 666 and kppp ran suid > root. > > The system in question is iBook2, bought this year after Macworld NY, > the old 12.1" version with 640 MB SDRAM (should not matter, surely?) and > Toshiba SD-R2002 1C30 DVD/CDRW. Just in case Apple decided to bundle > different modems with different configs... > > Any help *really* appreciated. Can't really test Mandrake properly if I > have to keep rebooting to get files from the 'net! > > PS Stew, thanks for the response. Any chance of a second beta appearing > soon? I can download ISOs much more conveniently on my department's > JANET connection than doing it at home. > > * Suggestion * - how about having an option in RPMdrake to export to a > text file the list of URLs for the files that will be downloaded in an > upgrading job? That way the user can grab the list, feed it to wget and > put it in RPMdrake's cache, and hey presto! > > Regards, > > Mich�l Alexandre Salim > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer > should > be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she > deserved. > -- R.A. Heinlein > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > -- ________________________________________________ Olivier Reisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] TuxPPC Site Director http://www.tuxppc.org The number one user resource for Linux on PPC. For safe mail, get my PGP Key: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/olivier.reisch/oreisch_public_key.gpg ________________________________________________
