[ltp] Slow Linux - Now Fast, but no modem!

[Buchan Milne]

surferjeff@excite.com wrote:
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> 
> Thanks for all the advice about my slow system.  I did away with the
 > loopback, created a proper linux partition, and it runs beautifully.I
 > think it would be actually worth it to remove the whole loopback thing
 > as an installation option.  It must give a lot of first time users a
 > bad impression.

You are using an ancient (ie older than 1 year I think) release, I think 
the option was removed (or made less prominent) in later releases. 9.0 
runs well on my PIII-500/128MB/12GB machine.

> 
> However, my Thinkpad 600 has one of those dumb winmodems.  I downloaded the driver from IBM and it built and installed with no errors (make; make install).  However, I can't actually run the driver.  As per the instructions, I run the following script, and get the following oh-so-descriptive error:
> 
> [root@localhost mwavem]# ./mwaved start
> Starting Mwave modem:
>     Loading kernel module:[FAILED]
> [root@localhost mwavem]# 
> 

My 600(X) has one of these, which uses the ltmodem drivers:

Bad:www.linmodems.org: Lucent Microelectronics|WinModem 56k 
[COMMUNICATION_OTHER
] (vendor:11c1 device:0449 subv:1014 subd:018c)

What do you get with:

$ lspcidrake -v|grep -i comm
?

Buchan


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