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Article #2209Re: zoom modem help
From: mganga
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 00:00
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 00:00
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HI, Winmodem is not a modem at all. It is designed to work with Windoze. Return your card and buy an an external Zoom modem, which works lot better and I am using it. I guess you can look for a Linmodem driver which might be of some help. Regards, /Murali In article <2Kvk4.1414$1S.33564@news2.tor.primus.ca>, "Marc Deschambault" <marc@primus.ca> wrote: > ummm as far as I know no winmodems work with linux at all. Even if it does > recognize it, it can't communicate with it, because it is a WINmodem, it's > designed to run under WINdows... > > Winmodems suck anyway.. my friend who has a winmodem that's supposedly 56k, > connects at 26400... I connect higher w/me 33.6 modem, and I connect at > 48000 with my 56k internal hardware modem... > > "Doug Muha" <dmuha@uswest.net> wrote in message > news:tTsb4.393$%R2.16333@news.uswest.net... > > I have a Zoom 56k PCI modem, ( yes I know its a winmodem and that it > > supposedly doesnt work with linux) The Zoom website offers some very > limited > > technical advice as to how to configure your modem to work with linux but > I > > must be too stupid to figure it out. So if anyone can assist me or at > least > > let me know if its a lost cause I would appreciate it. I'm running RH6.1 > on > > an Intel P III 500 dual boot system. > > > > I've run ppp and set up my dial up accounts. I believe that linux knows > > that my modem is there but it just doesnt know how to communicate with it. > > > > > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11033e,69d0fd86736dc5a5 X-Google-Attributes: gid11033e,public From: mganga@my-deja.com Subject: Re: zoom modem help Date: 2000/02/08 Message-ID: <87pkmr$raf$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Deja-AN: 583262448 References: <tTsb4.393$%R2.16333@news.uswest.net> <2Kvk4.1414$1S.33564@news2.tor.primus.ca> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x22.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 198.211.252.130 Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy. X-Article-Creation-Date: Tue Feb 08 17:45:07 2000 GMT X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDmganga Newsgroups: ahn.tech.linux X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.7 [en] (WinNT; I)