On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, James Bachman wrote: > Hello all, > > I am new to the group, so if this post needs to go elsewhere please advise. > > I recently installed Fedora on my 4 year old Gateway. It is a Pentium III, > 500 MHz, 384 MB RAM, 20 GB drive. It has an internal 3Com U.S. Robotics 56k > PCI Voice Ready Winmodem. > > Everything about Fedora works wonderfully well and the installation was a > piece of cake. Congratulations to all who worked on it. Having spent 5 days > over Thanksgiving trying to rebuild a Windows 98 SE box, and winding up with > a limping system, the difference with the 2 hour install and configuration > of Fedora was glaringly obvious. But I digress. > > I am unable to coax any response from the modem. I know the modem works as > it was functional under Windows 98 SE just before I loaded Fedora (I did not > keep the Windows 98 SE environment and have no desire to go back to it). It > is my understanding that Winmodems are "mentally deficient" and rely on the > Windows Operating System to run properly. I suspect I need a special device > driver for Linux/Fedora to get this modem to function. > > Is this a potentially correct analysis of the problem? If so, can anyone > point me to where I might find such a special driver? Or is the alternative > to buy a proper modem and configure that? http://www.linmodems.org If you can't get satisfaction there, then a real modem is the next solution. > > I do not yet have access to high speed internet (I live in a dial up world) > as I am somewhat remote and service is not quite yet available in my area. > > Thanks in advance for any and all help offered. > > Regards, > > Jay Bachman > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
