[ltp] Softmodem in R51 doesnt work in SuSE 9.1

[J Paul Richardson]

Isn't the Linuxant NIC driver loader based on ndiswrapper?  And if so,
might their modem driver loader be based on something freely available
also?

I may be totally off with that; just a thought.

J Paul Richardson
aka Reverend Linux




On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 12:22, Hartmut Meyer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Monday 26 July 2004 10:22, Uwe Rößner wrote:
> 
> > I have a problem with a new Thinkpad R51 running under SuSE 9.1 Linux. The
> > internal softmodem doesn´t work (I can ´ speak´ with the modem, but it
> > doesn ´t dial). YAST is able to identify the modem and I can configure it
> > (the package smartlink-softmodems is installed)
> 
> True (unfortunately): the internal modem of R51 is currently not support by 
> any distribution. I just talked to the guy that works on our (SUSE) side of 
> the relationship with IBM/NoFoSt/pro-comm.
> 
> According to what he says thge only way to get this modem to work at the 
> moment is the commercial driver available from http://www.linuxant.com
> 
> 
> Greetings from Bremen
> hartmut