[SGVLUG] last nite's meeting - please help

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I'm running an external modem on what used to be called com port one.
I do not have the tech background, but I did get my modem running.
I'm using Fedora C4, maybe I can help?

If you are running an internal modem, there's a species of modem that
uses part of the CPU microprocessor to do the job. It is not a full
modem in the ordinary sense, and it will not work with Linux. Winmodem??

Aside from being cheap, I'm running an external modem because it
bypasses the problem of modem compatibility. The Hayes is universal so
it was a safe bet that it would work with any flavor of Linux, or just
about anything else, except as a pizza cutter.



On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 15:11 -0700, Dustin Laurence wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 02:19:13PM -0700, David Lawyer wrote:
> > > 
> > I tried it again, and same problem as before.  It seems to only work
> > for an ethernet connection to the Internet and not for an analog modem
> > connection (there's no software on the floppies for dialout).  So
> > Debian's documentation about this is misleading.   So I filed a bug
> > report, which (per Debian) has been posted on one of their mailing
> > lists.
> 
> First: if you're on a modem you are *not* "on the network" in most
> senses of the word. :-)  Just like you're not "on the telephone" just
> because you are relaying smoke signals with someone who is on the phone.