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Article #38Re: RH 7.2 - modem recognised, but unuseable
From: Damien Covey
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 05:37
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 05:37
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I also had a HCF chipset, and as far as I can tell there is no driver for them. There is a driver for the HSF chipset though. Sorry. Drew@transtemporal.com wrote: > Hi, > I have been using RedHat since the 5.2 release. Previously I have been > unable to use my modem; > Mistubishi-Electric > Diamond Voice 56VE/VP > HCF/Rockwell chip; > with Linux (Every time I've upgraded my Linux system I have spent many > hours searching for winmodem drivers for my modem). I had decided to give > up and just get a new modem. > > You can imagine my excitement however when during the installation of RH > 7.2 today my modem was recognised!! However upon trying to use it (RH PPP > > Dialer, minicom, etc) I couldn't get it going. I shutdown and pulled the > modem out and restarted and during startup Linux recognised that it had > been removed (message below): > The following modem has been removed from your system. > Rockwell International:unknown device 127a:1024 > I restarted again (with the modem replaced) and Linux recognised > it had been added (message below): > The following modem has been added to your system. > Rockwell International:unknown device 127a:1024 > However I still could not use it. > > I am wondering if anyone else has experienced this issue and was > able to resolve it (either got the modem working or found a reason > why the modem wouldn't work). I am speculating that the "unknown device" > part of the above messages means that though the system recognises the > chipset and that the device is a modem it knows of no driver for it (this > > would correlate with yet another search I did today). I am fully aware of > > the issues of controllerless modems with Linux and until today never > expected this modem to work with the OS. > > Any information about this would be greatly appreciated. Even if it the > final outcome means that the modem won't work with Linux. > > Thanks, > Drew >
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