Can't dial-up :(

[Tim Schmidt]

Yup.  As far as I know not a single 3com winmodem works under Linux
(of course, you can always check out ndis wrapper...  that might work,
there's also Linuxant's driver loader).  I'd suggest you start
shopping Ebay for a mini-pci lucent modem.

--tim


On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 12:14:07 +1000 (EST), David <david at kenpro.com.au> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Neil Woolford wrote:
> 
> > It isn't there by default...  Before doing anything about that it might
> > be worth going back to .../Networking and looking at the properties for
> > your dial-up;  on the 'General' tab there is a button to autodetect your
> > modem.  Try it and see what it sets...
> 
> I did this, and no modem was detected.
> 
> > The first step I'd take if autodetection fails is to get and run the
> > 'scanModem' script from http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/, which will try
> > very hard to detect anything that could be a modem and give you
> > information about how to configure it and your system.
> 
> scanModem gave me this:
> Providing detail for device at PCI_bus 0000:00:10.1
>   with vendor-ID:device-ID
>             ----:----
> Class 0780: 10b7:1007   Communication controller: 3Com Corporation Mini
> PCI 56k
> Winmodem (rev 10)
>   SubSystem 10b7:615b   3Com Corporation: Unknown device 615b
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
>         I/O ports at d000
>         Memory at fbffd400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
>  A PCMCIA modem is detected.
> 
> scanModem info suggests that 3Com is unsupported. Is that the end of the
> road? Where do I go from here?
> 
> thanks...
> 
> 
> 
> 
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