> Use the scanmodem program from linmodems.org to identify the hardware, do not > trust that the client knows exactly and correctly what all the details are. > Use google to verify the PCI id codes.
Surely that's overkill? There aren't that many different losemodem chips around (3 I believe - lucent, conexant, intel). lspci should tell you that much. Where e.g. knoppix might indeed help is to check whether any specific driver options may have to be used. > In effect this means getting a known good kernel archive and compiling it > yourself. I would never go that far. Use a better distro. Also, there should be no need to compile the whole kernel anyway, binary-only drivers these days should be a .o which is linked with some other glue code. You should only need to install the kernel headers and compile only the driver module (sometimes you can do this in any directory too). > Etch into your memory that the acronym RPM stands for Really Piss-poor Method. No comment > That is the reason why most modem drivers are distributed as tar files. Now you're losing your usually good judgement. I can think of plenty of other reasons to explain the same effect. Scientifically that means your reasoning is unfounded. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
