Michael Rhys wrote:

Dear All,

I have installed SUSE 8.2 on the above laptop and everything seems to work fine, except the modem! I understand that this is because this is a Winmodem. Can any one tell me how to get the modem working - I have looked at various websites incl linmodems and each time I come away more confused than I started.

Please be gentle with me!

Mike.

Does it use a Rockwell/Conexant chip? If it does then there is the possibility that the driver for it may be available on www.linuxant.com . IF your SuSE 8.2 is running on the Athlon kernel then download the RPM for the GENERIC driver, and NOT the one under the SuSE8.2 heading because the RPM for 8.2 is not quite right and will not install. But try for yourself. Cheers. -- Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. Pablo Picasso

There are 2 packages available for SuSE 8.2 under the kernel options. One for conextant hsf and one for soft-link amr/usb modems. These are the 2 main "generic" types of winmodems. There are also a few specific modem drivers for IBM laptops and such... I have no idea how well they work, b/c the modem in my laptop is a Lucent based chipset, but I suspect that since SuSE included them and forcasted there functionallity in an interview posted on www.newsforge.com I suspect they work. :) HTH, Travis. On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 06:23, Michael Rhys wrote:

Dear All,

I have installed SUSE 8.2 on the above laptop and everything seems to work fine, except the modem! I understand that this is because this is a Winmodem. Can any one tell me how to get the modem working - I have looked at various websites incl linmodems and each time I come away more confused than I started.

Please be gentle with me!

Mike. -- Travis Owens Linux MDs