On Sunday 12 February 2006 13:45, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Sunday 12 February 2006 13:17, BandiPat wrote:
Ok experienced laptop users,
Installed SuSE 10.0 on this laptop successfully and everything seems to get along quite well. I only seem to have two problems with it thus far. Sound and winmodem. I still believe the sound is hardware related and just needs to be turned on some way. It's looking like that may only be accomplished via software though in WinXP.
The modem sets up as /dev/ttySL0, but will not dial out. I get the error: pppd (0) died: pppd options error (exit code 2). I haven't yet tested with minicom, but will do that before giving up on it. Too bad these folks don't have broadband yet, the ethernet port works great!
Anyway, any help, thoughts or suggestions are welcomed in getting everything working on this monster. I really would like to convert these folks to Linux.
TIA, Lee
Any idea what chips the modem uses? I think at linmodems.org you can find a script that will find out the chips for you. At least there used to be one there.
That's the place to start. Beyond that there may be some things you have to stand on your head to do.... on my thinkpad, there was a speical module to build and load (slamr) and the modem was then /dev/ttySL0
Once you find the chipset for it, you will probably find the answer. ========
It's Intel Bruce. I don't remember the exact description, but it's certainly Intel. Hmm, what a pain these things become. May be the same module that is needed for this one. Are you running 10 on the Thinkpad? I didn't find a /dev/ttySL0, so tried ttyS0-S4 with different results, got a code 8 from kinternet with those. Minicom just didn't do anything, since it wasn't talking with the modem. The joy of laptops. Lee