Re: [Sheflug] SuSE and Modems

["Rob Miller" <nospam [at] ntlworld.com>]

Thanks José, thanks Alex!
(Hey Alex, your 'spanner in the works' page on the ShefLUG site has a dead
email address link :-\

Thanks for the advice (luckily I didn't follow your first suggestion and
throw it away :-) but instead down loaded a Linmodem driver and and some
read me's from linmodems.org. I don't think I'll attempt to install it
tonight... I've been away from the command line for so long that my brain is
still shying away from it!

But in my own defense I used to run UNIX on an AT&T 3B2500 mini computer so
I've been through the PC to UNIX culture shock before - from the 'shoe box'
of M$ DOS to the quantum universes of UNIX :-)
I've done so much for one so young(*ahem*)

Still it's good to be out here - please excuse me if I stumble around and
fall over some at first
(I don't own any large hammers -yet- but I found that going out into the
yard and smashing up old furniture was a tremendous frustration release when
trying to install SuSE 6.4 only to have YaST2 freeze up every time it
reached 'now test your display'.) I installed it 'no X11 support' and used
SAX in the end - see I'm learning already :-)

Right I'll be quiet now (I used to be a list admin at Wrox for a bit and so
should really know better list etiquette)

Cheers All
Rob
-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Hudson <home [at] alexhudson.com>
To: Sheflug <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz>
Date: 16 February 2001 19:41
Subject: Re: [Sheflug] SuSE and Modems


>Hi again Rob!
>
>
>On 16 Feb 2001 19:10:33 +0000, Rob Miller wrote:
>> Well at long last I can hold my head up high and say that I am a real
Linux
>> user :-)
>
>
>'bout time too :)
>
>
>> My current problem is with the modem, a HSP56 MicroModem - it works fine
>> under Win98 but YaST2 can't detect it. There is a SuSE trouble shooting
>> guide for modems but the only version I could find was in German - my
main
>> problem with online help is that I can't access it under Linux 'cause
(you
>> guessed it) the modem isn't configured :-)
>>
>> Sorry if there is already an answer to this somewhere in the archives.
>> P'raps you could point me to a solution.
>
>
>Yep, the solutions list is something like i) throw it away, ii) use it
>as a cheap telephone interface, iii) ... um... now I'm struggling...
>
>I'm afraid you've hit bingo with a WinModem. If it's HSP (Host Processes
>Signal) it means not only is it a Winmodem, but one of the dumbest
>varieties, I'm afraid. You could try linmodems.org, or
>www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html. Well, you'll get information at
>least, but probably not drivers. I'm afraid you can't even use yours as
>an entertaining, but ultimately useless, soundcard :(
>
>Now you have an excuse for ASDL / cable modem / fixed wireless / delete
>as appropriate.
>
>You are now leaving the flashy lights of Propreitryville, heading
>towards the open (desert) than is free software....
>
>Cheers,
>
>Alex.
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