|Pradeep,
|
|The Problem is VERY simple to solve.Please DONOT listen to anyone saying
|that you need an extenal "real" modem to work with linux.
This line is totally uncalled for. Every lister has a right to share the
information.
|
|This modem is a "Linmodem" that is it has SOME(maybe most) components that
|make the modem work missing(!) and the CPU has to do the job of
|these"missing" components.Since you have a *fast* CPU it does not make much
|of a difference.
Linmodem is a parallel word to win modem. As on today only few of win modem
are Linmodem
|
|There is no way as such to "detect" the modem using a standard linux
distro,
|but you can get it working by loading a driver module viz. pctel_pci.o
|
External modem can be detected by number of utilities like minicom, wvdial.
available from http://www.eastwind.com.au/pctel.htm .just put it in
|/lib/modules/<kernel_version>/net .Also read the documentation on the
|website and configure ur system accordingly.also read the Linmodem-HOWTO if
|u want more info.
|I have struggled a lot to get this modem working and hope that you don't
|have to work so much ;-) to get it running.I haven't used the above module
|as i use RH6.2 with kernel 2.2.14 i have tried the modem on kernel
|COL(2.2.5),SuSE( 2.2.13) and RH6.2 with kernel 2.4.1 it works fine(i have a
|667Mhz P-III).I don't think it will have any problem except using
<insmod -f
|pctel_pci.o> instead of <insmod pctel_pci.o> just in case there is a kernel
|mismatch.
The lin modem modules are chip set specific and will not work on all the Lin
modem.
The driver for Motorola and conexant chip set modem are still not available.
Regards,
Mukund Deshmukh
Beta Computronics Pvt. Ltd.
Web Site - www.betacomp.com
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