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On Wednesday 16 May 2007 12:15, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:19:13AM +0100, Mick wrote |
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> > On Sunday 13 May 2007 21:18, waltdnes@××××××××.org wrote: |
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> > > My ADSL connection had a short outage yesterday. I discovered, to my |
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> > > consternation, that my machine's internal modem wasn't being picked up. |
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> > Was this working before then - e.g. since the last time you compiled your |
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> > kernel? |
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> > In any case you would probably want to (r)emerge the driver for this |
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> > modem. |
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> It's *NOT* a "winmodem". It's a bog-standard PCI modem that has |
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> worked in the past under linux without requiring special drivers. The |
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> only tweak it requires is allocating more than 4 serial ports in the |
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> kernel, which I've done. |
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Apologies! I have not come across a real internal modem so far and I readily |
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assumed that it was a softmodem. I thought that the "more than 4 ports" |
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setting was required for softmodems not real modems. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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