On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Bill Bennett wrote:
> Second Problem: the laptop is an
>
> IBM Thinkpad 600e
>
> which has a built in modem. I'd like to contact work at night,
> but I've been told that it will not be via the on-board modem,
> because this was dedicated to the dreaded Microsoft products and
> any attempt to use it will result in galloping leprosy.
>
> To my discredit, I'm inclined to think this not to be so.
>
> However, I don't know how to fiddle it so that it will
> work when I connect to the phone line.
>
> Can anyone advise me, please, whether it's possible?
http://www.linux-laptop.net
According to the 600E pages there, the modem is, in fact, a Winmodem which
will not work under Linux. I was unable to get it to work on my 600E, and
gave up as my LAN card had a 56k modem in it anyway, which worked fine
under Linux.
So you're shit outa luck on that one, unfortunately.
Everything else in it works - sound, X, trackpoint mouse etc - just the
modem doesn't.
DaZZa
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