[ltp] power off winmodem ??

[Alex Bell]

May I expose my ignorance and ask how one prevents 'loading the drivers for the device'?  I have 
a Thinkpad A21e with a winmodem.  I've bought an serial external modem, but could only get it to 
work under Windoze 2000 by disabling the internal winmodem.  I suspect that the reason Xandros 
won't recognise the external modem at all is that it is blocked by the internal modem - even 
though the winmodem is on Com3 and the external modem is on Com1.  Does this make sense?

On 19 Dec 2002 21:15:57 -0700, James Mckenzie wrote:

>This is simple, don't load the drivers for the device.  Linux will not
>know it is there.
>
>Now, if you want to "power-down" the device, you will have to remove it.
>
>James Mckenzie
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>
>On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 11:36, Dan Sawyer wrote:
>> All,
>> 
>> I seem to be unable to remove the winmodem from a 600x system. I have
>> tried to disable it with ps2.exe but it still shows up in the Linux pci
>> list.
>> 
>> Did I not get all the ps2.exe links? Without physically removing it is
>> there a way to make it invisable to Linux?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Dan
>> 
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Regards, Alex
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