Stuart McGraw wrote: > Hello all, > > I am having a bit of an emergency. I just lost > my regular medium speed internet connection and > am going to need to use dialup until I can buy > some replacement equipment. > > So I am trying to setup ppp/dialup (anyone remember > that? :-) on my Fedora 11 machine (something I did > years ago in FC4 days). I have a USR-5610B modem > in a pci slot. But Fedora seems not to notice it -- > when I reboot Anaconda fails to notice any new device > and I see no /dev/modem. > > Not sure what to check. I think the modem is ok as > I have two of them and the same problem with both. > AFAIK, the modem is real modem, not one of those > Win-modem things. > > Is there anything special I need to do to make Fedora > aware of this thing? > Believe it or not, network manager can create a dialup connection. The big thing is specifying the correct modem device. (After making sure the modem works in Linux...) Before you can create a dialup connection, you have to add your modem to the hardware list. I am not running F11 on this machine, so if you need specific instructions, let me know and I will fire up the laptop. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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