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I have just instaled linus on my computer and no matter what i do it will
not recognise that I have a modem. I have tried 5 differant modems and
reinstaling linux three differant times and still nothing. help please. my
main modem is a supermax 56i voice modem and is for a pci slot.

Thank you for any help

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Ouch.  I bet he didn't enjoy that at all ;)

Quote:> and no matter what i do it will
> not recognise that I have a modem. I have tried 5 differant modems and
> reinstaling linux three differant times and still nothing. help please. my
> main modem is a supermax 56i voice modem and is for a pci slot.

Your modem(s) may be a 'winmodem' which are designed for use only under M$
Windows, as they lack several key chips on the board to be a 'real' modem.
Please provide some more info, like what kind of Linux you are using, what
version, what other hardware you have (to provide insights as to potential
conflicts), what other kinds of modems you have tried.  With a little bit of
work, we should be able to get this rolling.

Monte

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Ok.  Just so you don't expect _too_ much, keep in mind that I don't currently
have Mandrake installed on any of my boxes.

1)  Do you know for a fact which COM port this modem should be found on?
i.e. in Windows, what COM port does it show up as?  *Note*  I have had
problems where I had a perfectly good USR Sportster 56k that I had to
physically re-do the jumpers to disable PnP and set the COM port & IRQ.

2)  If you are trying to just get on the internet w/ this machine, and not
anything fancy like masquerading (i.e. you don't have a LAN behind you), I'd
try kppp.  Sometimes kppp can 'find' the modem while the setup can't.  Go to
(kde)Start->Internet->Kppp and go thru the setup.

3)  If you are trying to set up a gateway and the whole nine yards w/
firewalling, dial-on-demand, etc., then someone else is going to have to jump
in here, 'cuz I'm still in the middle of figuring that out myself ;)

Monte

modem.

It' not a win modem.

Quote:> Please provide some more info, like what kind of Linux you are using,
what
> version, what other hardware you have (to provide insights as to
potential
> conflicts), what other kinds of modems you have tried.  With a little
bit of
> work, we should be able to get this rolling.

> Monte

I'm using Linux Mandrake 7.0 and a sound blaster 16 sound card. The other
modems were a rockwell 33.6 plug and play and three differt modem blaster
modles. I also have a ati 264 vts vido card. i don't even want to get into
the problems I'm haveing with that.

thank you for your help.

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You can find a list of modems that will work with linux at:

http://www.grapevine.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html

Click on the "BIG LIST" link on the left.

Dave Cook