When running properly I believe it is supposed to read and print out 
what chip set you have in a winmodem.  Very helpful in trying to get linux 
to see the modem.

On 21 Jan 2005 at 7:46, Eric Huff wrote:

> > > You may have to run "su" before running ./scanmodem - I don't
> > > remember if it will run as a normal user.
> > > All the instructions are for running in the command line
> > > interface, and not from X, so you nead a terminal window, or you
> > > need to drop to the command line. Now, as to what the commands
> > > do:
> > > 
> > > mkdiw Wmodem                  - Creates a new directory off your
> > > home directory.
> > > cd Wmodem                         - Changes to that directory.
> > > mcopy a:scanmodem.gz         - Coppies the file scanmodem.gz
> > > from a FAT formatted floppy.
> > > gunzip scanmodem.gz            - Uncompresses the fiel
> > > scanmodem.gz (to scanmodem)
> > > chmod +x scanmodem           - makes the file scanmodem
> > > executable../scanmodem                         - runs the file
> > > scanmodem in the current directory.
> 
> >    Nope, that didn't work either.  All variations, including those
> >    on the 
> > same hard drive, fail to get past mcopy.  Hmmm, could it be since
> > I ran mcopy from a run box that the file is there but the message
> > only says it can/t read the file.
> 
> What is this a:scanmodem.gz stuff?  I just tried it on mine and as
> expected, linux doesn't do anything with a:  
> 
> Mine would be /mnt/floppy/scanmodem.gz
> 
> eric
> 
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