spider200 Posted July 20, 2006 Report Share Posted July 20, 2006 I have a sony vaio fj270 and i have installed mandriva 2006 and am setting up kppp which is going rather smoothly. The only problem is that when i query the modem it keeps coming up modem is busy ???? I went into the Mandriva Control Center to set-up the connection and the same thing happens ?? Is their something I can do to help the computer recognize the modem, because in essence the computer isn't reading the modem or more appropriately not connecting with the modem properly ??? any suggestions please .. [moved from hardware by tyme] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted July 20, 2006 Report Share Posted July 20, 2006 do you know what kind of modem it is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spider200 Posted July 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2006 yea, it is a laptop, so the modem is internal V.90 fax modem if that helps ??? What would be the problem,??? the computer doesn't want to read the modem, when i try it, the computer says the modem is busy, but how can it be busy when the modem isn't being read and the internet connection hasn't been established ????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted July 20, 2006 Report Share Posted July 20, 2006 Either do an "lspci" under your console, or checkout via MCC/hardware for the actual modem model. Alternatively, use the (win)modem recognition tool from here (named scanmodem). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavaeolus Posted July 22, 2006 Report Share Posted July 22, 2006 since it is a notebook, it is surely a win-modem, which might give you some troubles, since there may be no drivers for them if it is a ltmodem (lucent/agere), there are drivers for them somewhere on the net, but you might have to install them by hand, if you're using a boxed-edition of mandriva, there should be some win-modem-drivers included, but I don't know for which models at the moment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spider200 Posted July 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2006 would it even be worth configuring all this nonsense. I have heard that winmodems don't work well with the cpu and present problems to the system overall ???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavaeolus Posted July 23, 2006 Report Share Posted July 23, 2006 if you don't use a modem dialup-connection you might never need it I have a ltmodem in my notebook, but since I'm on dsl I never use it, so I don't bother about configuring it I once had it working (there were rpms for it for elder mandrake-versions) and it did not pose any problems, it just worked basically these win-modems are dumb, they have no own modem-controller but need the cpu (and a driver) for processing, so in the end they put some load on your cpu, but not that much that you really need to worry about, and if the driver is written without too many faults there is no problem for the system, but if you don't use it, there's no real need to get it working Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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