RE: Need a little help with sound and modem

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On Fri, 07 Jan 2000 06:47:34 Poletti, Don wrote:
> > The second problem I'm having is with my US Robotics 
> > Sportster modem.  It is
> > autodected and a com port is assigned, as it is a PnP card, 
> > but the modem
> > will not initialize and dial.  I have been told that it can 
> > be difficult to
> > get a modem working, however I don't know what to do from here.
> > 
> 
> I Believe that the sportster is what is known as a WinModem. Meaning
Not all Sportster are winmodems.
There are a couple ways to determine if your modem IS a winmodem:
1.  if it is a pci modem, its a winmodem.
2.  if you can use it in windows with the standard modem drivers, and 
not the drivers that came with it, then it is NOT a winmodem
3.  In windows, use hyperterminal, and give the modem the "ATI7" 
command, if it mentions "VXD" anywhere in the report it spits out, then 
it IS a winmodem


> that it only has half the hardware of a regular modem. The part that
> is missing is handled by software. This modem will only work under
> windows! You will probably have to get a different modem. It can be
> hard to tell which are real modems and which are winModems because they
> stop specifically calling them WinModems. However a rule of thumb is if it
> costs less than $30 then it almost certainly a WinModem. US Robotics
> tends to be expensive so even their WinModems cost alot. I have heard
> some rumors that Kernal 2.4 will support winModems but I wouldn't
> hold my breath, I think they said the groundwork for winmodems would
> be in 2.4 whatever that means. It really sucks that windows does something
> that Linux can't but that's the way it is.
> 
> If I'm wrong about it being a WinModem then after trying to connect
> look in the file /var/log/messages for error messages. Other than
> that you will have to post more information like how are you 
> trying to connect? did you write a ppp-on script? What distro are
> you using, they all handle ppp differently, are you using ppp?
> 
> Also this question is not Gnome related and should be posted else
> where. There are some newsgroups for linux setup but I don't
> know what they are off the top of my head.
> 
> > I would appreciate as much help as I can get.
> > 
> > Mike
> > 
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Now, if after all of this you are 100% sure it is NOT a winmodem, i can 
help you to get it working.


Leland Elie
MIS Guy