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On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 05:49:24 -0800 (PST), Calinoiu Alexandru Nicolae <calinus2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Do you happen to know from were I can download drivers
> for my Lucent modem, for SuSE 7.3 linux.
> 
> Thanks (if you know !!!)
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is it a winmodem? if it is brows over to www.linmodes.org and read up there
if not, could be something else causing the problem. like an IRQ confliction,
which linux does not allow.

you can always use minicom to check you modem out. When you open minicom
your going to need to point it to the modem your trying to install. If its a Plug and PLay
modem then you need to have the plug and play package installed. 

you can run minicom as root with the -s option example:

minicom -s

and have it poin to where the modem is

ttyS0 = com1 
ttyS1 = com2
ttyS2 = com3
ttyS3 = com4
ttyS4 = com5

when you run it with the -s option you will get a menu with the following options


file names and paths
file transfer protocols
serial port setup
modem and dialing
screen and keyboard
save setup as dlf
save setup as ...
exit
exit from minicom

you need to go to Serial Port Setup
under this you have to option of

A- serial device
B- lock file location
C- callin program
D- callout program
E- bps/par/bits
F-  hardware flow control
G- software flow control

you need to change the setting A so just press a and the couser will jump up to where you can edit option a
and you need to edit this to point to where you modem is if you have your jumpers(if it has jumpers) set to
com4 then you would need to put /dev/ttyS3 in the line if you dont know what port its on, then there is the good
ol trial and error method :)  so after you get done editing the line just hit enter. then hit the Esc key to go back to
the main menu. and then go select Save as Dlf then do an exit minicom

now from here you can log in as a user and run minicom with just plain minicom (you can also run and configure 
minicom as a user if you so chose, it is up to you how you want to do things) 

minicom

minicom will start up give it about a minute. If no init string apears then you either have minicom
pointing to the wrong place, or your modem is a winmodem. 

if it takes a while for the init string to apear then chanses are you have an IRQ confliction between your modem
and something else. 

Give it a try and let see what happens

Good luck