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Thread ID: 60612	2005-08-07 06:56:00	Linux modem setup	MAC_H8ER (5897)	Press F1

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379019	2005-08-08 22:49:00	I have the b1tch of all win modems working quite happily in linux - the conexant HSF winmodem. The problem with dick smith hardware is finding out who made it before they slapped their logo on it. I had/have a problem with my USB watch and they refused to tell me.	apparition (3207)
379020	2005-08-09 00:23:00	bartsdadhomer: the dude says its picked it up, no need for mucking about with trying more drivers ;) Ive heard people sing great praises of those modems under Linux, based on a relatively good Intel chipset IIRC lspci -vv will tell you all you need to know about your hardware apparition.	Chilling_Silence (9)
379021	2005-08-09 01:30:00	bartsdadhomer: the dude says its picked it up, no need for mucking about with trying more drivers ;) Ive heard people sing great praises of those modems under Linux, based on a relatively good Intel chipset IIRC lspci -vv will tell you all you need to know about your hardware apparition. I admit to not being a linux expert (from what I can gather you'd need to be about 500 years old to become one!) So if the OS has picked it up does that mean it has automtically installed the correct drivers for it? How can one tell if this is so? Do devices have ! on them if not installed correctly like real OS's or is there some other way to tell? thx	bartsdadhomer (80)
379022	2005-08-09 01:32:00	So can I infer from this that this Dick Smith modem works a doddle with linux?	apparition (3207)
379023	2005-08-09 02:05:00	I'm watching with interest. :D I never did manage to get it to go but this link may help others. :) Click Here (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz)	B.M. (505)
379024	2005-08-09 02:13:00	In a terminal, type lsmod . That will show you what modules ("drivers") have been loaded. If the modem was "seen" during the boot process, there could well be a driver automatically loaded. Ubuntu is proabably later than DSE XH1154, so it might have the driver included. It will probably be an Intel chip so there might be a module with "Intel" in the name. dmesg | less will show what hardware was seen in the boot. ("space", or "enter" will page through it, "Q" to exit). If ls -l /dev/modem shows a soft link, the modem is properly installed. Probably. ;) You might need to unpack and compile the driver DSE give you. Because it's a tar.gz, you need to use the tar utility to unpack it. tar xvzf whatever_it's_called.tar.gz will do it. Or even, since you're unlikely to have many .tar.gz files, tar tvzf *.tar.gz . (If the file has a ".tgz" suffix, use ".tgz" instead of ".tar.gz", of course. The two forms are used "interchangeably", but you have to use the actual form in commands). Then browse the new directory this will make and read the instructions. They will have obvious filenames.	Graham L (2)
379025	2005-08-09 04:44:00	I've just been looking at some CDs. I downloaded and had a look at the driver sources from DSE when someone else was having trouble with an XH1154. The driver module is called "Intel536", and it will have a ".o" extension for a 2.4 kernel or (probably) ".ko" for 2.6 which Ubuntu is likely to be.	Graham L (2)
379026	2005-08-09 04:49:00	ok im lost. how do i get into the terminal thing you talked about? also i have the driver disc and it has linux drivers on it, how do i use them? ive heard a lot about the terminal and the commands look very confusing :waughh: any help is greatly appreciated thanks mac_h8er	MAC_H8ER (5897)
379027	2005-08-09 05:21:00	Try System > Admin > Network. There is an option to configure a modem there	bartsdadhomer (80)
379028	2005-08-09 22:35:00	ok ive been in networking and at my mates we hooked my comp up to his home network and linux found it straight away, yet it is making it hard to work out how to get the modem to dial up if i cant get the internet for it i really dont have much use for it :annoyed:	MAC_H8ER (5897)
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