RedHat modem issues..?

[ShockingAlberto]

hhmm, this isn't really the ebst place to ask for help, but the redhat forums suck

can anyone help me get my dialup modem working with redhat?

it's a 'Creatix HaM Data Fax Voice'. both KDE and GNOME cant find it themselves, so i guess i need to download some drivers that will work with linux?

ive tried the intel site, but its a load of shite, anyone help?

 

[Embattle]

Get a known modem

 

[Testin da Cable]

you'll need to come up with the exact chipset dudeh
and what Embattle said is quite true. 'known' modems/chipsets are much more likely to be supported.

 

[ShockingAlberto]

hhmm, windows wont tell me any info on my modem..
heres all i can get from the device manager:

manufacturer: creatix polymedia GmbH
hardware version: 002
:/
the drivers are by ambient.

i presume this is what you eman by chipset info? besides yanking the pci card out its socket and seeing what it says on the label i dont see what i can do about it. someone told me to /proc/pci in linux, so i did, and got this:

PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo PRO133x] (rev 196).
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd8000000 [0xdbffffff].
Bus 0, device 1, function 0:
PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AGP] (rev 0).
Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=12.
Bus 0, device 7, function 0:
ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 34).
Bus 0, device 7, function 1:
IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 16).
Master Capable. Latency=32.
I/O at 0xd000 [0xd00f].
Bus 0, device 7, function 3:
USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 16).
IRQ 9.
Master Capable. Latency=32.
I/O at 0xd800 [0xd81f].
Bus 0, device 7, function 4:
Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 48).
IRQ 9.
Bus 0, device 12, function 0:
Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 7).
IRQ 10.
Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=12.Max Lat=128.
I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc3f].
Bus 0, device 16, function 0:
Communication controller: PCI device 1813:4000 (Ambient Technologies Inc) (rev 2).
IRQ 10.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0000000 [0xe0000fff].
I/O at 0xe000 [0xe0ff].
Bus 1, device 0, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Vanta [NV6] (rev 21).
IRQ 11.
Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=1.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdc000000 [0xdcffffff].
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xde000000 [0xdfffffff].

booting to linux to try stuff that peeps in irc are telling me, then booting back to windows is getting tiresom, so i wanna get this modem sorted :/

 

[old.Reverend Flatus]

Yeah, what they said. You could consider getting an external modem, then it's just a case of talking to the port it's connected to which is a bit easier.

 

[ShockingAlberto]

in IRC managed to establish its not a winmodem, and that it should work fine, its on port 3, so was trying /dev/ttyS2 , yet no joy..? any ideas

 

[SoWat]

Au Contraire, it is a winmodem, as a quick look on the manufacturer's site shows.

They say it works (under Linux) from Suse7 upwards, so maybe the newer distros have winmodem support

 

[ShockingAlberto]

no, there were drivers written for this modem by some bloke.
had problems with the 2.4 driver due to the way rh stored the kernal source(or rather didn't).

so i compiled 2.2.20, got it working fine, installed the driver, and nothing. it just didn't do anything.


after reinstalling redhat choosing software myself(i found out it hadn't installed apache...), i found i had the kernal sources where they should be, and was able to get the 2.4 driver working.


it's all nice, but i dont like mozilla much, displays everything..weird like.

 

[Testin da Cable]

I dun like ole mozzy either. Konqueror is the one for me Glad you got it working dudeh.

 

[ShockingAlberto]

with RH, konquorer is packaged with KDE..so if you use GNOME no konquorer...

i could install the RPms i spose...what is it like compared to mozzilla / IE on windows?

my main grief with mozilla and netscape is that they cant get the right raitio for displaying html. it allways looks either too small, or too large. i've got it at a reaosnable compromise, but it's not great.

and another thing is the pluggins. i need the flash pluggin, partly because the forum i frequent most (linkee in sig) has a few flash logos in a rotation, and some idiot has a flash of around 8 muppets scrolling accross a banner size thingy as his sig...
so everytime i load the page, i get boxes telling me i need to download the pluggin. the problem is, i have the pluggin! but mozilla doesn't seem to autodetect them like netscape does (should do, since ive never used it). it is the linux pluggin, it should work, but i cant really see how to add it manually since mozilla replaces netscape's pluggin manager with an overlycomplicated mathingy.
i could just delete the scrolling muppets flash(since its my sigits in ), but i really want the pluggin :/

anyone know how to get pluggins to work right in mozzilla?