Linmodem or Winmodem

[Prisoner]

i have a lucent technologies winmodem. ok i was told that i can get a driver to make this thing work with Linux. where is that? and can i buy a 56 k modem that will automatically work with linux if so what kind? i dont want to mess with the kernel and mess everything up please help? :confused: :mad: :(

[Bradmont]

www.linmodems.org (http://www.linmodems.org)
You should find what you need there.

[Prisoner]

i tried that and i got a driver from there for the modem but i have no newbie idea of how to install on my linux box its on a floppy disk. it say something like from command prompt type /ltinst and it doesnt work can any1 help

[bsh152s]

Don't get discouraged. I actually got the winmodem working on my machine. What distribution are you running? I think the driver you downloaded does depend on what version kernel you have.

What does it do when you type "./ltinst"? If I remember right, it also gave me some weird response but it ended up working with a little tweaking.

[Prisoner]

i have corel linux the kernel and glibc is 2.1 and its based debian 2.2.16. and it always says no directory by that name. hwta should i do

[X_console]

First, mount your floppy disk:

mkdir -p /mnt/floppy
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

Then...

cd /mnt/floppy
ls

What comes up? Is it in .tar.gz format or .tgz? If it is in either...

tar xvzf file.tar.gz

Replace file.tar.gz or file.tgz with the actual name of the program that showed up.

It should now be uncompressed. At this point, do another "ls" and see if you see the file "ltinst". If it's there, type "./ltinst" to start installation. If it's not there, see if a new directory has been created. If you see it, go inside it. You should now be able to do "./ltinst"

In addition to the information here, click on the Search link and make a search for "linmodem" in the How-I-Did-It forum. Some systems need a little hack or two to get the linmodem working on a 2.2.16 kernel.

[Craig McPherson]

If you do shop for a new modem, spring for an external Hayes. That'll give you the fewest problems in the long run, methinks.

If you can't afford an external modem, make sure the internal modem you buy isn't a Winmodem. Even if your operatign system DOES support the modem, software modems are BAD NEWS: they eat up a ton of CPU time, slow down everything you do, crash stuff, lock stuff up, etc. You get what you pay for...