find modem

[John Heinen]

Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Thursday 21 August 2008, John Heinen wrote:
>   
>>> I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop that has a Conexant softmodem in it.
>>>
>>> Took about two hours yesterday to find that www.linuxant.com  has the
>>> drivers for $19.95.   Installed and works like a charm.     You can also
>>> use the driver for free but it will only do  14400 baud.  Maybe that's
>>> good enough for you.
>>>
>>>  
>>>       
>> How does that work,  Downloading with win xp and install it in kubuntu?
>>    Novice!
>>     
>
> Not at all.
>
> If you go to www.linuxant.com,  and click on the "Drivers" tab and select 
> Conexant modems, you'll find a lot of information.
>
> I downloaded scanModem, which is a neat program to identify your modem.
>
> Once I did that, I found out is was an HSF modem (whatever that is)
>
> So click on the left for  HSF (softmodem driver)  and download.
>
> You agree to the license, and then download the install program:
>
> cnxtinstall.run
>
> Make it executable, and run it and it will do a nice install of everything.
>
>
>
>   
I am so sorry Bruce, I didn't mean you as a novice, I am the novice, I 
have worked with the graphical programs so much for so long that I have 
very litlle understanding of writing  commands or instructions.
So when you wrote make it executable, what do you do?
Again my apologies.  John Heinen