modem education

[Net Llama!]

On 06/05/2006 08:06 AM, Bob Hemus wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Michael Hipp" <michael at hipp.com>
> To: "Linux tips and tricks" <linux-users at linux-sxs.org>
> Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 6:16 PM
> Subject: Re: modem education
> 
> 
>>> From: "Bruce Marshall" <bmarsh at bmarsh.com>
>>
> Ah, I miss-used the trem switch.  What I was/am confused about is this modem 
> worked fine.  I put in a new hd, a Seagate 160GB and installed Win XP.  When 
> I fired it back up the ActionTec V.92 PCI modem wouldn't work with any of 
> the distros I monkey with (wash out my mouth!! preposition at end of 
> sentence).  I tried all kinds of configurations, re-configuarations to no 
> avail.  The box in which the modem arrived and the adds for this modem list 
> All M$ stuff, OS2, Unix and Linux.  I assumed from this it had enough of all 
> of the correct chips?  Here is the dope from the modem. "ACTIONTEC 
> PM560LKC V.92".  The board says, #03-0322-3A.    Here are all of the chips;
> LCB110, CP Clare, 0018T11600; COSMO, 6010, M16; COSMO, 2010, 4N35, A41, B; 
> NAis, AQVZIDEN, 203, 2 of these; ATMEL, AT49F002T, 70JC, 0029, Lucent, 
> 1673TV8, 28RDD 0022K, copyright sign, 98 LUC; ISSI, IS61C25AH-12J,JV052631H 
> 0019, ISSI, IS61C25AH-12J,JV052631H 0020;
> Agere, PCI-7XT, 0208S, 3745674 copyright 98 AGERE.
> 
> Did this modem have the right stuff and I sparked the chip monkeying around? 
> I try to remember to use my ground strap, but sometimes it comes loose and I 
> miss it. I found this file, I'm going to try to install it on my SuSE 10.0 
> after dinner, if I have time.

According to this, you've got a real modem:
http://archives.linmodems.org/14828

Personally, I'd recommend using kppp to get online.  its about the only 
thing in KDE that doesn't annoy me.

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