This is the modem. What to do with it?

Janina Sajka janina at afb.net
Mon Jul 15 10:05:44 EDT 2002


Hi,

Yes, I was thinking exactly as you say in this message, that you don't 
have a lot of experience with compiling. Of course, before you can 
compile, you must download and extract, so there are several steps. Just 
ask about any one of them that confuse you.


On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Octavian Rasnita wrote:

> Hi Janina and all,
> 
> Thank you for advice. I will try to find a driver on linmodems.org.
> 
> To Janina:
> 
> Hi Janina,
> 
> I don't understand what you mean by "Are you up to speed on downloading".
> I don't know english very well and I assume this is an expression.
> 
> Does it mean "if I know to untar the files and to install the drivers?
> 
> If yes, well, I don't know.
> I've compiled  links  from its source, but this is my first compilation.
> If there will be any compilation problems, I won't know how to solve them,
> but I will ask.
> I hope I will find a good driver.
> 
> However, I've ran a Perl script that tested the modem and it told me that
> this modem has an optical / electrical bla bla (I don't remember the term)
> and that it is very possible that I won't find any driver for it.
> 
> Teddy Center: http://teddy.fcc.ro/
> Mail: orasnita at home.ro
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2002 8:40 PM
> Subject: Re: This is the modem. What to do with it?
> 
> 
> Oops. Hit the send button too soon.
> 
> What to do with the info at Linmodems ...
> 
> You're looking for drivers that support "Lucent Microelectronics 56k." Any
> drivers you find for that you get, install per directions, and try.
> 
> Are you up to speed on downloading tar.gz and tar.bz, then unpacking them
> and compiling?
> 
> 
> On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've typed the command
> > lspci -v
> > to list my PCI devices and here is what I found about my modem (a
> WinModem):
> >
> > 00:0a.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics 56k WinModem
> (rev
> > 01)
> > Subsystem: GVC Corporation LT WinModem 56k Data+Fax+Voice+VoiceView+Dsvd
> > Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 9
> > Memory at e4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
> > I/O ports at f500 [size=8]
> > I/O ports at f600 [size=256]
> > Capabilities: [f8] Power Management version 2
> >
> > I went to linmodems.org to find  a driver for this modem, but I don't know
> > what to take from there because I haven't seen such a thing.
> >
> > Are there any other Linux commands that will tell me more about my modem,
> to
> > be able to find a driver for it?
> >
> > Thanks a lot.
> >
> > Teddy Center: http://teddy.fcc.ro/
> > Mail: orasnita at home.ro
> >
> >
> >
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> 
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> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
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