On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:57:01PM +0100, Daniel Faulkner wrote: > Hi, > Recently a friend asked me 2 install linux on his laptop and > most of it works well. > (touchpad mouse was suprisingly easy) > Sound, looks hard but from the sound of things has been done > before and something I haven't had much of a go at yet. > PCMCIA bus/controller thing I think is OK > But the actual cards are the problem. There is a DVD card (not > looked for a driver yet) > And a modem (which is causing the problems) > > The modem is: > PCMCIA modem, 3COM Megahertz 56k Global WinModem PC Card Model > 3CCM656
It says WinModem right on it, which means that the DSP functions are handled by the CPU, not by dedicated hardware. You _WILL_ have problems, since most manufacturers don't tell anyone how to get the CPU to do this, they just release windoze drivers. > Laptop is: > Gateway Solo 2500 > OS is: > Debian Linux, Potato (Disks say 2.2.r3 on front) Kernal 2.2.18 > (I think if I remember right) > > So far what I've seen makes it look like a new modem is needed > for certain but as linux is continualy updated I would like to > know if there is a way to get the modem to work in linux. Try www.linmodems.org, though. They've got something going, but I don't know if it's useable or supports your card. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
