Drivers for Winmodems

Matthew Saltzman mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Sun Feb 15 18:18:54 UTC 2004


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
>

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		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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