Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3513 mails)

[Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 16:12 -0800, Simon Roberts wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----
>
> > From: Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ...
> > > OK, I disabled the onboard serial using the BIOS setup. Now none of the 
> > > serial 
> > ports report settings from stty. Now /dev/ttyS[0123] _all_ report 
> > Input/Output 
> > error, so that's clearly not a report indicating that a half-cocked device 
> > has 
> > been found. I guess that's a step forward.
> > > Meanwhile, hwinfo reports a product: '56K WinModem' or 'LT WinModem 56K 
> > > Data + 
> > FAX' -- Is that one of those dreadful things that isn't really a device, 
> > and has 
> > to have proprietary drivers to work? Do I need to install a kernel module 
> > to 
> > drive it? Or should it go in the trash?
> >
> > I'm reading late the thread, but what I was going to suggest: " hwinfo - 
> > --modem" finds and report on the modem. In your case, it would have 
> > reported the 
> > port if it existed.
> >
> > And yes, you need drivers. I have no idea which, sorry: if I find one of 
> > those 
> > modems it goes out the way it went in. I don't want any softmodem near me.
> >
> >
> > Well, as you have real serial ports in your machine, I would try getting an 
> > external modem via serial port. They work (almost) always.
>
> Bleargh, I think you're right. I loaded the "softmodem" stuff that I found in 
> the distro, and it says that it doesn't support FAX functionality, so I 
> guess--since that's all I wanted to do with this thing anyway--I'll have to 
> give up until I can find a nice cheap external FAX modem

  You can buy a driver module for certain fax/modems from the
originators of the softmodem driver, last time I looked the pay for one
had fax capabilities.


> Look out Craigslist, here I come :)
>
> (Anyone in the Denver area want to get rid of an external faxmodem?)
>
> Cheers,
> 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
>
>
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