On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 09:29, you wrote: [ ... ] > Certainly one of the > most prominent has to be scanModem (on this month’s cover disk or a tiny > 20KB downloadable from this website > <http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages>). It’s goal is to identify > chipsets so that users “can be directed to sources of potentially > supporting software”. But does it perform? I put it to the test.
It works. It's a huge shell script which parses the output from lspci and creates messages accordingly. A simple solution to the "How do I get my modem going" problem. I wish someone would do the same kind of thing for scanners and then there would not be any excuse not to use Linux on a day to day basis. -- C. S.
