Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4398 mails)

[Ken Hough <kenhough@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Donn,

I did briefly think of using an external modem, but this is for my son 
and his wife who are not computer literate and like a tidy system which 
I have with my own T21.

Until recently, I used external modems exclusively for my desktop PCs. I 
now have broadband via an ethernet/wifi router, so when using the T21 at 
home I use a wifi/broadband link.

Router is a Netgear DG834GT
Wifi card is Netgear WG511T
Operating system is SUSE v9.1

Works well for a 'g' link (54MB/sec), but have not yet tried 
'ndiswrapper' etc to go for 108Mb/sec.

Ken Hough

Donn Washburn wrote:
> Ken Hough wrote:
>
> > I have a problem with an IBM Thinkpad T21 which I have just obtained 
> > for my son. It contains a 3Com ethernet/winmodem device and so far I 
> > have not been able to discover a Linux driver for the 3Com winmodem. 
> > The ethernet part is working OK.
> >
> > I've established that the winmodem does work by setting it up under MS 
> > Windows 98 + extra drivers.
> >
> > This is a bit of a letdown as I already have a T21 (ie outwardly the 
> > same model as above), but this one contains an Intel ethernet/winmodem 
> > device. The modem part is a Lucent winmodem for which there is a 
> > driver and it works OK.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Ken Hough
> If you have a COM/ttyS port then get a external modem and rid yourself 
> of many headaches.  It may work but always be a headache.