[ILUG] Linux Modems

[Anthony]

Ian Spillane wrote:
> Thanks for your original help but I think it was just that my winmodem was outside the range of chipsets supported. No problems just no action. 
> 
> The error message from compiling 536ep is just a failure/stopping message. Tried to find an rpm. No luck. I think if I've seen google indications that changes in FC4 has fucked up a lot. I'll try it again and report back. 

Hi Ian,

I don't know if this is any help to you or not. I too had been caught 
out by the box stating that it was a hardware modem and that it worked 
with Linux. I now know better. No cheap(ish) PCI modem that I have come 
across is really a proper hardware modem.

When I was running Mandrake 9.2 on my 233MHz PC, I had no problem 
compiling the driver for the 536ep chip set - once I had the 
kernel-source installed and had recompiled my kernel. However I remember 
wanting to upgrade to a more modern Mandrake distro but not being able 
to do so as there was no driver available for Linux 2.6.
(from looking at 
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/filter_results.aspx?strTypes=all&ProductID=977&OSFullName=Linux*&lang=eng&strOSs=39&submit=Go%21 
the appropriate drivers have since become available.)
Since then, I've moved on to using a better-specced PC and now have ADSL 
so I can leave those worries behind. Though I have to say that my 
experiences resulted in me becoming opposed to hardware that can only be 
used with proprietary / binary-only drivers.

Best of luck,
Anthony