On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 22:02 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Wednesday 16 August 2006 21:08, Reg wrote:
> >Ross Drummond said: If exasperation with your modem entices you to change
> >modems rather than operating systems, here are three suggestions .....
>
> <snip>
>
>
> No I think you got the wrong guy, my modem is fine. It's some other guy
> exasperated with getting his modem working.
Alan & I were chatting on the 'phone a moment ago.
He has a 2.6.15 kernel & the ltmodem-8.31 matches it.
everything seems to be ok, except that the /etc/ppp/kppp-options file is not
present. Did anybody actually get kppp set up?
To avoid any more hassle for Alan I have suggested that he buys either an
external modem or the DSE XH1154 mentioned by Ross. The problem with this
approach is that we then have a modem which is unsupported by the current
kernel in Alan's Mepis.
Quoting the FAQ in the DSE site.
===
Q. I cannot get the Linux driver to install even after carefully following the
instructions in the readme.txt file. How can I get this driver to work?
A. We have found that the driver provided by Intel will not work under kernel
2.6.9 or higher (you can verify your kernel version by typing uname -r at the
console). At this stage we are still waiting for Intel to update the Linux
drivers. The updated drivers will be posted here when they are released, so
watch this page.
===
Bummer!
So it looks like an external modem from Computer Future or somewhere.
Anybody on the list got a 56k external dial up modem they could sell to Alan?
I have a Dynalink 56K External modem for $30 including postage?
On Wednesday 16 August 2006 21:37, Andrew Errington wrote:
> I would have liked to try wvdial, as it tries a few different init
> strings, but the Mepis installation did not seem to include the original
> disk as an apt source (nor was it commented out in sources.list), so either
> there is no additional software on the CD, or including it as a source was
> simply overlooked. Having said that I'm not sure wvdial would be any more
> successful.
Previously, I have found wvdial to be 'magical'.
Could someone grep the Packages file on the CD to see if Mepis have it on the
CD?
