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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] pppconfig can't find internal modem.
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 11:22:21
Message-Id: 20070516111504.GA5410@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] pppconfig can't find internal modem. by Mick
1 On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:19:13AM +0100, Mick wrote
2 > On Sunday 13 May 2007 21:18, waltdnes@××××××××.org wrote:
3 > > My ADSL connection had a short outage yesterday. I discovered, to my
4 > > consternation, that my machine's internal modem wasn't being picked up.
5 >
6 > Was this working before then - e.g. since the last time you compiled your
7 > kernel?
8 >
9 > In any case you would probably want to (r)emerge the driver for this modem.
10
11 It's *NOT* a "winmodem". It's a bog-standard PCI modem that has
12 worked in the past under linux without requiring special drivers. The
13 only tweak it requires is allocating more than 4 serial ports in the
14 kernel, which I've done.
15
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17 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1
18 Q. Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of Microsoft security?
19 A. I think it would be a good idea.
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