Nervious wannabe new user asks for advice.

Tony Dietrich td at transoft.demon.co.uk
Mon Jan 17 18:42:53 UTC 2005


On Monday 17 Jan 2005 16:14, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> --- thebearwitchproject
>
> <thebearwitchproject at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >  --- Tony Dietrich <td at transoft.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > > On Sunday 16 Jan 2005 16:20, RoboticGolem wrote:
> > >
> > > Check the documentation for your modem ... most
> >
> > ADSL
> >
> > > modems run a stripped
> > > down version of a web-browser that you can connect
> > > to when the modem is
> > > plugged into the host machine.  This interface
> > > allows you to setup the modem
> > > with the neccessary setting to connect to your
> >
> > ISP.
> >
> > > The real problem after
> > > that is finding out the right settings!
> > > However, you mention that you have a Windows
> >
> > system
> >
> > > still .. so cheat!
> > > The modem should retain the connection settings
> >
> > even
> >
> > > after a power-off, so
> > > connect it to your Windows machine, run the disk
> > > your ISP supplied, then plug
> > > the modem into your Linux machine.
> > > Linux *should* see the modem.  Demon Internet in
> >
> > the
> >
> > > UK supply a similar
> > > modem, and their tech dept. *claim* that it is
> > > compatible with Linux,
> > > although I needed a multi-port ethernet modem, so
> > > chose the self-install
> > > route.
> > > --
> > > Tony Dietrich
> >
> > Unfortunately no documentation came with my modem. I
> > got it with AOL, when I went to their broadband
> > service, I stayed for a year and migrated to Central
> > Point. The drivers running it in Windows came from
> > BTs
> > own website.
>
> why don't you use scanModem utility from
> linmodems.org?  Go to linmodems.org and download
> scanModem.gz.  After you download it take it to your
> linux partition and
> # gunzip scanModem.gz
> # chmod +x scanModem
> # ./scanModem
> Some files will be generated and you will be told if
> the modem is supported under Linux.  If that is hard
> to do please do as root user
> # lspci
> if it does not work su - root
> # lspci
> and send it to the list.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Antonio
>
Antonio
This guy has a USB ADSL modem, not a PCI internal Winmodem.
-- 
Tony Dietrich
-------------
And miles to go before I sleep.
  -- Robert Frost




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