I have the 700m as well, and I was able to get gentoo installed it quite
nicely. However, I can't verify the modem's status - hell, I don't even
have a land phone line to test it with :)
Check this out if you haven't already, it's for FC3:
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~mmastran/fedora-core-3/
(specifically http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~mmastran/fedora-core-3/modem - he
says he got it to work with the Linuxant.com drivers but the full version
costs $15 and the free version only works at 14.4K)
but! on the bright side:
http://www.progsoc.org/~wildfire/notes/dell700m.html
claims that it's a smlink modem and they actually have drivers on their
site (!) located here: http://www.smlink.com/content.aspx?id=132 (local
mirror here: http://wmuc.umd.edu/~andersop/data/slmodem-2.9.10.tar.gz )
those directions are for debian specifically, but it seems that they
center around the package "slmodem" (which comes from the smlink site
above), and also installing libasound2-dev and compiling the modem driver
with alsa support. then, the driver can be run as a daemon with
./slmodem -a 'modem:1' as root.
Good luck - I've managed to get almost everything else running on there
under gentoo, except the power managment (blah, what a mess) and
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, David Zakar wrote:
Just to head it off, blah blah, you should buy an external serial modem.
With that out of the way...
Could you be more specific about what you tried, regarding the linmodem
drivers? Links would be good, too.
-DMZ
On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 10:14 -0400, Arun Mallikarjunan wrote:
I found information about linmodem but I am
not able to get it to work.
