Modem - G4 Powermac - issues

Justin Kelly linuxppc at gmail.com
Fri Apr 22 01:20:02 UTC 2005


On 4/22/05, Colin Charles <byte at aeon.com.my> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 10:16 +1000, Justin Kelly wrote:
> 
> > Does Fedora PPC have support for PowerPC modems at the moment?
> 
> Maybe
> 
> > When i attempt to use the Internet Wizard or wvdial I get errors '-->
> > Cannot open /dev/ttyS0: Input/output error' (see wvdial log below)
> >
> > also Kudzu doesnt pick up any modems (See kudzu log below)
> 
> Its the internal modme that you're referring to, right?
Correct
> 
> class: OTHER
> bus: PCI
> detached: 0
> driver: unknown
> desc: "Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21154"
> vendorId: 1011
> deviceId: 0026
> subVendorId: 0000
> subDeviceId: 0000
> pciType: 1
> pcidom:    1
> pcibus: 10
> pcidev:  d
> pcifn:  0
> 
> What Mac does this come from?

G4 400 PowerMac (http://www.lowendmac.com/ppc/g4saw.shtml)
> 
> > Bit of a spastic question but do PowerMacs use HCF modems, if so is
> > just using the Linuxant drivers the easiest solution?
> 
> Doubtful, but give the linuxant free tool for checking a try
> --
thanks, i'll give it a go - see what happens

> Colin Charles, byte at aeon.com.my
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> "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you,
> then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi
> 
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