On Jul 12 Kinjal Sonpal wrote,
As mentioned in my earlier mail,u have to download the >driver file from the motorola's site .. Here's the URL: http://e-%3Ewww.motorola.com/products/softmodem/support/sm56_5.1_i38 6.rpm
And before downloading, don't forget to read the docs >that they've put up on the above mentioned link's parent >page which is
http://e-%3Ewww.motorola.com/products/softmodem/support/software.htm l
So,after u download the RPM file install the file using (Log in as root)
$ rpm -Uvh sm56.rpm (Replace sm56.rpm with >whichever file u've downloaded) $ /usr/local/sm56 $ reboot (I'm not very sure why we need reboot,but it >din't work for me .. I had to reboot)
They've also got a man page for the modem which u can >read by typing
$ man sm56
And voila! yr SM56 Internal modem is ready !! As of now I'm using SuSE 7.1(Thanks to Navin for >giving me the CDs) and the above mentioned procedure worked for >me .. However it failed in Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 .. May be >the older kernel was the problem ..
First of all thanks for the soulution to my problem. But I would like to ask what kernel vewrsion are you using? I tried to use the 2.4 version but found it very problematic. Is the 2.4 version shipped with Suse Linux 7.1 good enough for you? I actually went back to use the 2.2.18 kernal. About the driver from the motorola site i tried it out. It looks good, but does it work with 2.2.18 kernel?
And about the Roltanet connection ,
Is there anyone one the lug who is using RoltaNet's >dialup net services? I've been facing problems in connecting to the >RoltaNet .. The logs say that I can connect to their server but then >while logging on to the network, the connection hangs ,, And it >even blocks my internal modem,i.e. I can't even kill the >connection .. If anyone was successful in setting up dialup connection >to the RoltaNet then please help me .. Connection to the VSNL dialup connection is absolutely >fine and to my surprise it's much faster than what I used to get >with Windows !!
I use Roltanet in windows, but due to my modem not yet working in linux i have not been able to connect in linux. Please do tell me how you did it in linux? And about the speed differences in win & lin it may well be due to better implementation of the TCP/IP in linux than in Windows.
Bye for now