On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 23:38 +0100, William d'Ormond wrote: > > Point of e-mail: How do you get fedora 5 to detect and install a USB > dial-up modem (DC-009 V2 Sitecom)? > > Hi everyone, > > I'm not really a linux newbie... but please treat me as one. > A long time ago I installed Fedora 3 and had a lovely time with it. > But then my laptop's internal winmodem broke (I had spent considerable > effort getting it to run with smartlink linmodem drivers (slmodem > 2.7.9 or something like that)). > > I then went and bought a USB modem. This I thought would cure all > problems associated with linux compatibility. It works under Windows, > obviously, however, I have now moved completely on to Fedora 5 and > deleted the windows partition. > Fedora 5 does not detect anything when the USB modem is plugged in... > in fact it only detects the broken internal modem which I cannot use. > This is strange as the modem lights on the USB modem turn on when I > plug it into a USB port. > > I now have absolutely NO IDEA how to start getting this stupid USB > modem to work under linux. Smartlink has given up linux support it > seems, and has switched to connexant (linuxant.com ). Actually I can't > find the chipset of this modem under google anywhere, and can't detect > it at all in linux, so I'm not even sure it's a Connexant chipset. I > am presuming it is an HCF modem type????? > > Can someone please help me out, because I won't be able to access > internet at home if I can't dial up a connection on my phone line. > AFAIK there are still problems using USB modems with Linux. Try www.linmodems.org and see if the people there can help. I believe they write most of the drivers for the various winmodems that are now being used in Linux. >
