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Mandrake Linux 8.2 won't detect my
Name: Aditya Date: April 5, 2003 at 23:35:25 Pacific OS: Mandrake Linux 8.2 CPU/Ram: Intel P-2 400MHz/64MB
Comment:
My Mandrake Linux 8.2 won't detect modem. i have Motorola SM56 internal PCI modem at com4 under DOS. please help me.
Name: Balram Adlakha Date: April 6, 2003 at 11:47:25 Pacific
Reply:
frankly speaking it has good reason not to detect it... The thing is that your modem is what is called a "winmodem", that is it uses the system cpu and software to do the work, and that software is made by motorola only for the windows OS... In other words, these modems are a poor design. Get a "real" modem ("most" internals are winmodems, "most" externals are real ones, not all though...) Real modems don't need any software (or driver) to work, the drivers included with windows for these modems are infact just a set of "commands" to pass to the modem for initialisation and dialing. These things are done using scripts or dialing tools in unix type operating systems...
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