Re: Dell Inspiron which Linux

From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_gmail.com)
Date: 06/16/05

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    Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 09:20:00 -0500

    On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 08:03:57 -0400, General Schvantzkoph staggered into
    the Black Sun and said:
    > On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 09:37:45 +0200, Stéphane Paris wrote:
    >> Well, I have no answer but a question about dell inspiron 8100 and
    >> linux mandrake 10. I really don't understand modem configuration. It
    >> seems that the material is correctly plugin at boot but when I use
    >> the configuration tool, it doesn't work ?
    > Chances are that your modem is a Winmodem, all built in modems are
    > winmodems, and most winmodems don't work with Linux.

    A quick look at http://www.ironorchid.com/jjinux/inspiron_laptop/ says
    that the Insipron 8100 has a Lucent LoseModem. Those are supported.
    Check with "lspci | grep Lucent". Stéphane, go to
    http://www.linmodems.org/ and follow the directions for Lucent. There
    might even be a Mandrake 10 RPM for the 2 evil binary-only modules you
    have to install. Do that, then do:

    modprobe lt_modem
    modprobe lt_serial

    ...point your kppp or whatever at /dev/ttyLT0 or make a symlink from
    /dev/modem that points at /dev/ttyLT0 .

    > get an external modem and make sure that it's a real modem.

    External modems are A) expensive B) not nearly as portable. FWIW, the
    last 2 laptops I've owned (Thinkpad 600X, Thinkpad A22p) have had Lucent
    LoseModems, and I've never had any problems with them on the rare
    occasions when I'm somewhere without a real Net connection.

    > I'm not sure if all USB modems are real modems,

    Some are, some aren't. It's not worth it to use USB if there's already
    a Lucent LoseModem built into the laptop. HTH, 

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