[ILUG] newbie questions

[gerodonoghue at sigma-sl.ie]

Ah! Winmodem. 
Have a look at the following webpage
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html This will tell you if your
particular modem is supported or not. If it is a driver will be
available.
The best advise however is to obtain a hardware modem.

Regards Ger

> On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 12:23:29PM +0000, Fiona Whelan mentioned:
> >  I can't connect to the internet. I have partitioned my drive 50-50 between Windows and
> Linux. 
> > Windows can connect to the internet fine. My modem is: Connexant HCF V.90/56K Data,Fax, 
> > PCI modem (built-in). Please dont tell me that Linux doesn't support this modem. I tried
> using 
> > PPP and chat scripts to connect to IOL NOLIMITS but the modem remained silent. 
> 
>  It's a winmodem I'm afraid - one of the problems with buying a Compaq
> (it's mainly compaqs that ship with these) is that the machines are built
> to run Windows (and often just their version of windows), and little else.
> 
> Kate