" can winmodem be used in linux? "

hello friends
well... i use red hat linux 6.2 along with win 98 in a dual lilo boot system,,,, i have a motorola SM56 56kbps voice modem and i use dial up connection to connect to internet,, now i want to use the net through linux ,,, and i 'm having problems configuring my modem with linux,,so can any1 tell me the procedure to configure my modem in linux and other settings so that i get optimum speed form my dial up conection,, also that if i have to download special drivers for my modem to work i n linux?
any help will be highly welcomed
thanx in advance

I think the config/boot message says, when you're installing, "You can a winmodem, you might have to visit http://www.linmodems.org/ for a driver" or something like that (heavily paraphrased). Then again, I might be thinkiing of Mandrake rather than RedSplat.

well my freind i had earlier seen the site u mentioned in ur reply,, but i didn't get the
matter i was in look for,, for ur info i tell u that i use a SM56 motorola voice modem which i
guess is a winmodem,,,, so if u guys can tell me that how can i surf the net using this modem on lijux then i wil lbe greatly helpful

Go to www.GOOGLE.COM
search for the exact name of your modem, along with
the word linux. That's how I found a driver
for my winmodem, (and ,yes, it works)
:cool:

unfortunately linux does not support winmodems , and as far as I know you can not do enything exept writing a driver for linux by your own.
I would like to mention that 99% of internal PCI modems are winmodems.
So you should buy an ISA or eternal one.

There was a tutorial written about this by one of our members.

http://www.AntiOnline.com/showthread...hreadid=229021

Be sure to check out the forums, there is a wealth of information available here.

Regards

I'm not sure if this will help you, but it helped me to get my winmodem working in linux:

Check out
http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv

Hope this helps.

Damn Chefer, I was going to direct him there :)

Here's what I know...
Most RPM driven distro's (ie: redhat, Mandrake) have drivers for chipless modems, just gotta do the search for it.
However, DEB driven distro's (ie: Corel Linux) does not... not sure why, either because not enough people use it, or it's harder to write drivers for...

Just a little hint in choosing types of distros...

You know, when I see a good thing, I remeber it. That tut happened to be a good thing ;)

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