Guest olunic Posted August 7, 2003 Report Share Posted August 7, 2003 I have a problem with Linux detecting my modem. I have a Global Village 56K V90 modem. Could someone please help me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted August 7, 2003 Report Share Posted August 7, 2003 If it's and internal, chances are it's a winmodem. See www.linmodems.org If you're running 9.1, there'll be an option, in the networking widard for winmodem, it's under normal modem. Sometimes it doesn't appear though. There are also no guaruntees it'll work. James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted August 7, 2003 Report Share Posted August 7, 2003 Modems are fun. Maybe some are fun. There are two kinds of modems: ones that have processors and are "real" modems, and ones that use the computers processor to do their modem stuff. The second type are only modems as lomg as a windows software program is present to tell them that they are modems! That's why they're called "winmodems". Until the last year or so, the winmodem was a good boat anchor in any system other than windex! There is now a possibility that they work, especially with 9.0 or 9.1. Does your modem show up in the hardware list of the Mandrake Control Center? Do you have a mac?? Global Village are mac modems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted August 7, 2003 Report Share Posted August 7, 2003 Here's another nice link discussing analog modems and linux: http://www.desktop-linux.net/linmodems.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest olunic Posted August 7, 2003 Report Share Posted August 7, 2003 I saw on a website that it is not a winmodem. It's a pc modem and when i bought it, the technician said that it was a hardware modem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted August 7, 2003 Report Share Posted August 7, 2003 my googling only turn up Mac stuff :? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted August 7, 2003 Report Share Posted August 7, 2003 my googling only turn up Mac stuff :? same here. and they all said they should work. do you see the modem listed in Hardware in the Mandrake Control Center? Do you get some sort of an error when you try to dial out? What exactly do you mean by "a problem with Linux detecting my modem"? we need more info.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted August 7, 2003 Report Share Posted August 7, 2003 Global Village has an external usb modem. Is that the type you have? Could you be more specific as to your modem model? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest olunic Posted August 7, 2003 Report Share Posted August 7, 2003 The modem is not in my mandrake control center. It is an internal modem. Does'nt linuc have a one driver fit all solution like windows or a program for modems like the sndconfig? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted August 7, 2003 Report Share Posted August 7, 2003 not even windows has a driver that works for all solutions. drivers are usually written by the company who makes the peripheril. most of the time companies do not write drivers for linux, and it is left up to people who use linux to write them themselves. it's unfortunate, but it's just how it is until companies start supporting linux more. sndconfig simply finds the driver if one exists on your system already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted August 8, 2003 Report Share Posted August 8, 2003 Open a terminal>su to root> and post the output of; lspci -vv using the code button not quote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest olunic Posted August 9, 2003 Report Share Posted August 9, 2003 I was not able to run Ispci-vv. It says command not found. Any other ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted August 9, 2003 Report Share Posted August 9, 2003 su to root su <hit Enter> enter roots password <hit Enter> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest olunic Posted August 9, 2003 Report Share Posted August 9, 2003 I did that and but it did'nt work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted August 9, 2003 Report Share Posted August 9, 2003 Oh, put a space between lspci and -vv lspci -vv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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