Re: Re: Modem Installation, and Fatal Error.
By: Gandolf to Mikesla on Fri Nov 11 2011 09:30 am
> > So far I haven't gotten a response from the Ubuntu forums so I thought m
> > would try you folks here.
> >
> > I don't know what else to do about this. All I wnt is to get my modem to
> > otherwise there is no point in me even having linux installed.
> >
> > Cheers.
>
>
> So.....
> The loaded question that comes to my mind is 'Why do you need use of
> your modem?' Don't you have high speed networking on your machine already?
>
> On the other hand... if a modem is legitimately necessary...
> May I suggest investing in a serial based modem? No drivers are needed,
> and I have yet to run into a linux distro that doesn't know how to
> correctly deal with serial ports. (That includes my USB to RS232
> adapter for my laptop.)
>
> How to 'sniff out' a serial port is on linux:
> $ dmesg | grep tty
>
> The needed output for identifying the serial port is as follows:
> [ 2289.792347] usb 6-1: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0
>
> All you have to do now is set up Minicom (or SyncTerm, or whatever your
> favorite terminal program is) to recognize that device. In my case, the
> device name would be /dev/ttyUSB0
>
> Hope that helps. As you have already found out, WinModems and linux
> don't always play well together. Hope you find the solution you need.
I did get a Conexant WinModem working with the drivers, it can work. The
difficulty in Linux, is that its easy to go down the wrong path in solving
issues.
My advice to this new ubuntu user is this. Don't try and solve too many
problems. When I was new to Linux, I got stuck trying the wrong things too.
All that should be necessary, is findind out which chipset it uses (It seems
Conexant) and finding a web site with exact instructions for Ubuntu getting the
driver working.
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