[opensuse] Color me stupid :( Need slusb
Well, I win this year's prize for being an idiot. I went looking for an external modem, so I could get past having a bunch of WinModems in my cupboard and make progress on setting up a simple fax server. I found one for $17 on craigslist, did a quick search to discover that somebody somewhere was actually using this under linux, and bought it. Weeeeelllllll, It turns out that it's another breed of soft modem, and although it seems to be recognized by my system (OS 10.0) the output from hwinfo says I need to "modprobe slusb" to get it running. But there ain't no slusb available, and I can't even find out what package that would be part of. I tried the softmodem stuff, but that didn't change anything. Any offers, or should I just tell the world I don't deal with FAX any more!? Cheers, Simple Simon "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." — Naguib Mahfouz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 09 January 2009 20:11:48 Simon Roberts wrote:
Well, I win this year's prize for being an idiot.
I went looking for an external modem, so I could get past having a bunch of WinModems in my cupboard and make progress on setting up a simple fax server. I found one for $17 on craigslist, did a quick search to discover that somebody somewhere was actually using this under linux, and bought it.
Weeeeelllllll,
It turns out that it's another breed of soft modem, and although it seems to be recognized by my system (OS 10.0) the output from hwinfo says I need to "modprobe slusb" to get it running.
But there ain't no slusb available, and I can't even find out what package that would be part of.
I tried the softmodem stuff, but that didn't change anything.
Any offers, or should I just tell the world I don't deal with FAX any more!?
Cheers, Simple Simon
"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." — Naguib Mahfouz
Have you tried http://www.linmodems.org/ ? I have found this site very good for soft modem installation in Linux. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 13:11, Simon Roberts <thorpflyer@yahoo.com> wrote:
Well, I win this year's prize for being an idiot.
I went looking for an external modem, so I could get past having a bunch of WinModems in my cupboard and make progress on setting up a simple fax server. I found one for $17 on craigslist, did a quick search to discover that somebody somewhere was actually using this under linux, and bought it.
Weeeeelllllll,
It turns out that it's another breed of soft modem, and although it seems to be recognized by my system (OS 10.0) the output from hwinfo says I need to "modprobe slusb" to get it running.
But there ain't no slusb available, and I can't even find out what package that would be part of.
I tried the softmodem stuff, but that didn't change anything.
Any offers, or should I just tell the world I don't deal with FAX any more!?
I recently bought a USB modem and it had Linux drivers on the CD, but I didn't try it.... Why don't you pickup an old serial modem? Even a 33.6.... you are only using it for fax, so the speed does not really matter (don't buy a 2400 baud either) e.g.: http://cgi.ebay.com/US-Robotics-56k-external-modem-Model-8701_W0QQitemZ14029... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 10:11 -0800, Simon Roberts wrote:
Any offers, or should I just tell the world I don't deal with FAX any more!?
Simon, There are modem in amazon and microcenter that support linux http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/store-name=electronics&index=electronics&search-type=ss&field-manufacturer=US%20Robotics I use a robotics for fax and also a backup in the case the dsl line goes down. -=terry(Denver)=- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 09 January 2009 19:11:48 Simon Roberts wrote:
It turns out that it's another breed of soft modem, and although it seems to be recognized by my system (OS 10.0) the output from hwinfo says I need to "modprobe slusb" to get it running.
But there ain't no slusb available, and I can't even find out what package that would be part of.
The slusb driver is provided by smartlink themselves. I have no idea if they keep it up to date with the latest kernel development though. http://www.archtek.com/drivers.html
Any offers, or should I just tell the world I don't deal with FAX any more!?
The best would probably be to find a true hardware modem. They work best anyway Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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