ReddDogg
01-28-2001, 12:22 AM
Ah tonight I finally did what I have been planning to do for awhile, I setup my main machine on a dual boot with windowsME, which preexisted, and Linux Mandrake 7.1. But, alas, I have a slight problem, or maybe, something I just didn't understand. Ya see, I got everything for the most part working in Linux, the sound, the printer, the network login. But, one thing escapes me, and that is the Modem.
the Modem is a Diamond SupraMax 56i PCI modem. From my understanding it is supposed to be supported by Mandrake. When I installed mandrake, I am pretty sure I told it to look on com2, whatever I told it, it continued on with install, which, normally, if something you tell it is a problem, it comes up with an error. So, when I tried to setup kppp, or gnomeppp, either of the may the modem is busy, or, someing about a ppp daemon suddenly terminated.
So, if anyone could give a suggestion. Maybe an init string would fix it, or maybe a modem script would do the trick.
one other thing, I logged in as root, and did some kind of a hardware analysis, and it didn't find the modem, but it also didn't find my soundcard, but I have sound.
I have installed Linux Mandrake on 2 other machines, and both of them had Crap Modems, so, my figuring is that they were winmodems and that is why they wouldn't recognize, but this isn't what the system did to me then, it just said no response from modem then.
Thanks in advance for any ideas.
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Joe Redd
MCP
the Modem is a Diamond SupraMax 56i PCI modem. From my understanding it is supposed to be supported by Mandrake. When I installed mandrake, I am pretty sure I told it to look on com2, whatever I told it, it continued on with install, which, normally, if something you tell it is a problem, it comes up with an error. So, when I tried to setup kppp, or gnomeppp, either of the may the modem is busy, or, someing about a ppp daemon suddenly terminated.
So, if anyone could give a suggestion. Maybe an init string would fix it, or maybe a modem script would do the trick.
one other thing, I logged in as root, and did some kind of a hardware analysis, and it didn't find the modem, but it also didn't find my soundcard, but I have sound.
I have installed Linux Mandrake on 2 other machines, and both of them had Crap Modems, so, my figuring is that they were winmodems and that is why they wouldn't recognize, but this isn't what the system did to me then, it just said no response from modem then.
Thanks in advance for any ideas.
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Joe Redd
MCP