Re: Modem not detected.

[John Sutherland <fedora@xxxxxxxxx>]

From the info I've found on google, it appears that the Dell Inspiron 
has a winmodem - though it appears that it works ok under linux, here's 
what I found:

http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/G.Wilford/Inspiron8500/

John S.

Vikas.Bhasin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm not able to configure my modem on laptop. I have Dell Inspiron 8500. 
> Fedora installed successfully thought every time i boot my machine, It 
> stops at activating network and then i get error of unresolved IP 
> address for ethernet card eth0. To avoid this, i removed the card from 
> system settings.
>
> Yesterday only i got internet connection so I tried it on my laptop but 
> i was unaware that Fedora never detected the modem on my laptop. I tried 
> running internet connection wizard and network configurator but couldn't 
> make it to detect my modem. I feel, i can make an external modem connect 
> to serial port to work as i've done it before on RH5.6 but i want to use 
> the inbuilt modem. I'm not very good at Linux but want to explore and 
> understand it.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Vikas