> > After lots of google and research, I eventually got my > > modem to dial under Suse 9.1 (couldn't get box suse 10). > > The problem is that in a short period of time, my whole machine > > just locks up which doesn't occur until modem is activated. > > SuSE 9.1 was the first with a 2.6 kernel. Intel was late porting its 536 > driver to 2.6, plus the driver doesn't work - so this modem driver was > not part of SuSE 9.1.
> Unless you tried the latest version of the 536 driver, it means that > either it seriously doesn't work with your hardware configuration, or it > doesn't work with the kernel in 9.1. From 9.2 onwards it works again. > Upgrade distro (9.1 was discontinued last week), change modem card, or > invoke plan B. Tried plan B, ubuntu, that failed (probably due to lack of knowledge on ubuntu) tried plan C, solaris, worked out that my knowledge of solaris was even worse than my knowledge of ubuntu, hence gave up. Plan D is get latest version of Suse 10.1, any luck in getting boxed set? If so where from?
