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I have a modem that works under linux. I have Linux Mandrake 7.2. How do I load the drivers? and next, how do I know which COM port it's listed under? windows did all that crap for me, and I lost Windows, btw. The modem is a Smartlink PCI 56K modem. It works under linux and windows. Any help is appreciated. Thanx in advance!
I did the "setserial" command. It says that /dev/modem has UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8 (COM 1), IRQ: 4. It knows there's a modem there, but I still need to install the drivers so that it it can talk to it. Any suggestions?
well USUALLY with your drivers comes a readme file with the instructions on what to do. A walk though. I would look and see if you have a readme file in the tar or whatever file it is. You can untar a tar.gz by using this command
tar zxvf yourfile.tar.gz
that will unzup it to the directory yourfile/
I dont think that my post covered everything...But if you need more help post again with more info.
-mikez
Hi,
A couple of questions.
1) are these drivers you refer to modem drivers on a cd?
2) how do you know this modem works with linux?
3) what is the output of lspci?
1: yes, they're on a CD.
2: it says so on the box for the modem and the website. Just no linux installation instructions.
3: bash: lspci: command now found.
Hi,
lspci needs to run as root, sorry... my mistake.
so type this in the console:
su
then enter your password
then type lspci -v
Please post the results of lspci -v and we will set to work getting this modem working.
Dallam
Hi,
Ok, I don't understand why no sucess issuing the command lspci -v. That would show me your communications controller and would give me a clue as to what is going on with the modem. Could you go to linmodems.org and join the discussion mailing list and post this problem there? By doing that we can get some others more knowledgable than I involved in solving this problem with your modem. If you need to email me off this forum that is ok as well,
Dallam
Using the command su by itself will make you root, but you will be stuck with the user's path. Use ' su - ' and you will get root's path and that way you won't get the ' command not found ' error message unless it doesn't exist or is not in your path.
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