You think!? If you would have read....then you'd see thats why I bought a PCI
modem...I
know the winmodem wont work, and never will
Thanks for your input though
JON
"{{{ J.P.}}}" wrote:
>
> WINMODEMS are NOT supported by Linux and never will be... See their web
> page....
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Schwartze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 9:16 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Modem Problems
>
> hey man,
> I'm having the exact same problem as you. What kind of modem do you have?
> I have a
> WINMODEM, and an Internal PCI modem, both of which......Dont work (of course
> the winmodem
> wont work, thats why I bought the PCI one....). I've been on this list a
> few days now,
> and everybody I have asked says to buy an External modem. Preferably U.S.
> Robotics
>
> Hope that helps :)
> JON
> *Linux-Mandrake 6.5*
>
> Abdoul Da Man wrote:
> >
> > I did everything you guys said, now I have "modem busy"
> > with Kppp.
> > When I do a "uname -r", I get "2.2.5-15BOOT"
> > When I do a "uname -m", I get "i686"
> > when I cat /etc/mandrake-release I get
> > "Linux Mandrake release 6.1 (Helios)"
> >
> > I have a Gateway pentium III 450 and windows98 and Linux
> > and 64MB of RAM.
> > and I changed the config.sys so to boot either
> > from linux or windows by using "loadlin vmlinuz..."
> >
> > I will appreciate all help.
