Re: Winmodem?

Stephen, what is the chipset of the modem?

Tim

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 18:41:27 -0800, captgoodnight@acsalaska.net
<captgoodnight@acsalaska.net> wrote:
> On Thursday 29 July 2004 10:44 am, Stephen King wrote:
> > OK...I'm rapidly coming to believe that it is easier to make a laptop
> > levitate than to get the Linux desktop (Xandros 2.0, in this case) to
> > recognize the winmodem that came installed in it. I've gone to the
> > Xandros support site and several posts say "Oh, yeah, it works
> > great...just load this driver..." (different drivers each time) and I've
> > loaded the drivers, but still it's coming up as a no.
>
> Could be a pppd issue too. Fun Fun ;)
>
> > Since I'm not
> > looking forward to explaining to non-technical clients that the 'win' in
> > winmodem means Linux doesn't like it...anybody have any ideas?
>
> What modem is it?
>
>
> > The
> > really painful part is that it's a dual-boot machine between Xandros and
> > XP...modem works beautifully in XP. Grrrr....
> >
> > Thanks to the person who suggested the 'man cdrecord'; gave me some good
> > info but didn't work. The clients are enjoying their Windows machines'
> > ability to write directly to a CD as though it were a floppy. The
> > Windows app is called InCD. My experiences with cdrecord have resulted
> > in long command lines, having to know which track the file is on, and
> > corrupting the CD in the end. I did find a udf writing app from
> > sourceforge that I'll try today...wish me luck.
>
> If it's kde arena, have them use k3b; Flawless here.
>
>
> > Oh, yeah, and more experience (experience being what you got when you
> > didn't get what you wanted)...never ever install a distro without the
> > "Developer Tools" (i.e., gcc) no matter what level user is gonna be
> > running it. Invariably you need a driver, a Novell client, or an
> > upgrade to a program which is only available in source. Then you have
> > to find gcc, which AFAIK is also only available in source, and so you
> > wish you had a compiled compiler to compile the compiler. Bad root. No
> > cookie. =20
>
> Go sit in your kennel, bad rewt! bad rewt!
>
> bests,
> eddie
>
>
>
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