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| 370926 | 2005-07-10 12:29:00 | God bless ADSL ;) And I thought you enjoyed a challange :D It is possible I have had FC2 running a soft modem also a Debain based distro using a soft modem at the moment and believe me debain based distro's are bl****** stubbon somtimes. At the moment im cheating, I am sharing my xp dailup with my FC2 linux laptop (too lazy set it up I guess and I have a (registered) luxant driver for it too ). |
beama (111) | ||
| 370927 | 2005-07-10 21:20:00 | The whole thing strikes me as being akin to trying to use semaphore in the middle of the night whilst you’ve a working mobile phone in your pocket! :D I shall soldier on manfully. ;) Thanks everyone for your help so far. |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 370928 | 2005-07-10 21:40:00 | From my limited experience, most internal modems are nigh on impossible to use with Linux because of driver issues (usually lack of a linux driver) There is a site (linuxant.com) where you can buy modem drivers (they also have free drivers if you want net access at 14Kbps) although I have never tested any of them. What I did was buy a cheap external Dynalink modem off TradeMe, connected via serial connection, no drivers needed for linux :) and Voila!! Currently using ADSL router connected via ethernet :) |
Myth (110) | ||
| 370929 | 2005-07-11 05:45:00 | Update: If anyone thought they heard some rather coarse language floating on the airwaves a wee while ago it was probably me! :lol: I got sick of fighting with Fedora so I thought I’d whip the modem out of the mate’s computer and into my week old Ubuntu machine and see if I had any more luck there . Well everything was going fine working between Graham & Jen’s instructions and a Linux Cheat Sheet I’d acquired . Ubuntu could see the Modem and correctly identify it but didn’t have the drivers to do anything about it . No problem out with the disk, unpack the files, (struth it’s a hell of a lot easier on Ubuntu) and away we go . Everything was going tickety boo when at the very last hurdle up comes a message, “Unsupported Kernel Version” What the …………………………… Grrrrrrrrrrrr! The kernel is ver . 2 . 6 . 8 . 1-3-386 and it seems from "Googleing" that the drivers supplied only work up to ver . 2 . 4 . Now, some of the posts I read on the subject were quite old (6 months) so I wondered if Intel had made new drivers for the 2 . 6 kernel available yet? (heads off to pop another blood pressure pill) :waughh: |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 370930 | 2005-07-11 05:55:00 | Everything was going tickety boo when at the very last hurdle up comes a message, “Unsupported Kernel Version” What the …………………………… Grrrrrrrrrrrr! The kernel is ver. 2.6.8.1-3-386 and it seems from "Googleing" that the drivers supplied only work up to ver. 2.4. Now that is strange. The readme for the driver that I downloaded off the DSE website clearly states "This release supports 2.4. x and 2.6.x kernels. It is not compatible to 2.2.x kernels." Are you using the drivers off the supplied CD or did you download the latest off the DSE website? Hmm ... just looked at your previous comments and you are using an outdated driver. Go here (www.dse.co.nz) and grab the ver 4.69. You are trying to use ver 4.51. Sorry, I should of picked this up earlier and saved you some grief. |
Jen (38) | ||
| 370931 | 2005-07-11 08:53:00 | Thanks for that Jen . I’ll try again . Talk about try and confuse a man . The Drivers I used came off the CD supplied with the Modem . Interestingly, if you could call it that, :D there is little in common between the Manual (booklet) that came with the modem, the manual on the CD, and the online Manual . As I guess the Modem is mainly used with Windows they probably concentrate their efforts there . The old poor relation scenario . Right ho, back to square one! |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 370932 | 2005-07-11 11:09:00 | Can’t win. I’ve downloaded from Dick Smiths and couldn’t extract files. Kept being told it was a HTM file. So, I downloaded what looked to be the same file from the Intel site but it wont open (extract) either??? I note it is a .tgz file as opposed to a .gz file that extracted previously. Message is: tar: old option “f” requires an argument. It’ll get an argument OK the way things are going! :badpc: |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 370933 | 2005-07-11 11:40:00 | I took a look at the Intel download site, and there is 101 flavours of that driver. Which one specifically did you download? From that link I gave you to the DSE driver, did you follow the "Latest Linux Drivers (tar.gz 1,724KB)" link and then Agreed to the Terms and Conditions link at the bottom of the page? This should of triggered the browser to download the tar.gz file. With your command, did you specify what file you wanted to uncompress? If you have put the file in a folder by itself, you just need to go into that folder and hit F4 (this is with KDE) to open up a terminal window and enter in: tar -xzvf *.gz the * is a wild card so that you don't have to enter the exact file name and it will untar any file ending with .gz. For your .tgz file, you use instead: tar -xzvf *.tgz You are doing well, so Big Smile please :D |
Jen (38) | ||
| 370934 | 2005-07-11 20:53:00 | Back on the case again Jen . :) From the Intel site I downloaded INTEL-536-EP-4 . 60 . 1-MDK10 . 1-SMF . tgz . I woke up in the middle of the night screaming, but with the thought that maybe, just maybe, the problem I have is because I have to download to a WinME computer and transfer the file via CD to the Ubuntu computer . Just wonder if there is a file type conflict in the transfer?????? As for Ubuntu and his mate Fedora, they have both been placed on the endangered species list! I’ll download tricky Dickey’s driver again and see what happens . The annoying thing is the Wrong driver did everything according to plan until the very last step . B… . . Murphy, he can go on the endangered species list along with Ubuntu and Fedora . :mad: Whoops, blood pressure Bob, blood pressure . :D |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 370935 | 2005-07-11 21:47:00 | Update, again . I downloaded the DSE driver again and decided to transfer by floppy . Noooooooop, got the following message: Unable to Mount Selected Volume: Could not determine the file system . Wahhhhhhhh! |
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