Linmodems support
Linmodem = Winmodem - Windows + Linux
Maintained by volunteers, eager to help you!
Contents
- Foreign languages? click!
- Introduction to Linmodems and purpose of this site.
- Beginner's Linux documentation
- Please
subscribe to the Linmodems discussion
list before writing to the forum. No subject, no text, just send.
Same to
unsubscribe
- Try to set up your modem yourself the long way, if you have some Linux experience, want to understand what you do, and want
to know all details.
- The short way: first time here? click!
- The short way: Modem not recognized? Driver does not work? Upgrading? click!
- The short way: shortcut to the
scanModem utility.
- The short way: Modem identified! click!
- The short way: Required driver identified! Many available on this site but blind fishing will cause trouble. Better first
read scanModem output (ModemData.txt) and/or about resources!
- Driver installed, how to connect? Use wvdial.
- Driver installed, connection does not start? click!
- Questions and answers? Try our searchable archive (clone of linmodems.org).
- A few case studies.
- Need more help?
- Subscribe
to the discussion forum
discuss@linmodems.org.
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Check that your mailer shows your reply
address.
- Write to discuss@linmodems.org with
your questions giving as much details as possible (what you did step by step
and the messages seen after the commands).
- Unsubscribe?
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- In the subscribe (and unsubscribe) requests, leave
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- People who will make their best to help you are volunteers, so
please PLEASE READ THIS WEB PAGE and most important, read
about scanModem
before sending questions. You will save their time and thanks
to your effort everybody will get better service.
- If you still need help write to us
in English. Please refrain from civilities. Please give full details
on your installation and the problem for which you call for help. Please write meaningful subject: Linux distribution, kernel,
modem identification. Thanks
- About this site, usage report, author.
- FAQ's? click!
- Hotnews? click!
Linmodems
A Winmodem is a combination of hardware known as chipset
(much less than in a true pure hardware
modem) and software
(written for the infamous Windows operating systems family).
A Linmodem is a Winmodem working under the famous Linux operating system.
LTmodem stands for a family of widely used, albeit now becoming obsolete, Winmodems built around some Lucent
(now Agere) DSP only chipsets.
An LTmodem is only one variety among many different incompatible Linmodems!
The material presented here is aimed at transforming
the Winmodem which
you have purchased (often without knowing, just plugged in your box by the
manufacturer or the dealer) into a working Linmodem (hardware unmodified, of
course).
This is not the place to look for help with purely hardware (including external), nor xDSL,
modems.
This is also not the place to look for help with setting up a connection with
your Internet Service Provider (ISP) -- although some Linmodems specific aspects
of such a connection can be found here (see
post install help).
Nor is this the place to ask which modem to buy. For that purpose see
Rob Clark's Database
with one remark. PCTel based modems shown as supported in that table are supported for
2.4 kernels, but not all of them are supported under 2.6 kernels.
Moreover, this is not the place to look for other help with Linux -- except of course
for issues specific to linmodems only.
New Linux Users,
do not
miss The Linux Cookbook.
It is available on line.
You will bless yourself for keeping a printed copy on your desk.
For very impatient very beginners, please
at least read this to learn
a few very basic commands. We cannot answer questions at such a level. No time,
no manpower. Please bear on us.
Windows users new to Linux,
this
guide by Mark Chapman is likely to be of great help to you. (note 1/8/01
by J.G.: page 13 of this (PDF) document contains a wrong link to Rob Clark's
winmodems database)
Furthermore the link to the PDF guide quoted in the document is broken.
Here is the said
PDF document .
Unfortunately the brief guide above
(not PDF) by Chapman has
disappeared so instead I recommend
this one.
Give yourself a chance, take 10 minutes to read it! You will thank
its author.
Learn UNIX, learn LINUX
Both use the same concepts and the same commands.
One is proprietary, the other is free
And the key to success is in Mark Sobell, "An introduction to System V".
And finally
How to start dealing with your modem.
with a mini tutorial for absolute pedestrians about driver compilation.
So, what next (aka the real job) ?
- "Don't know where/what/whom to ask?"
Linmodems.org, the Mother page of
this project, is the very first thing to read, before asking questions to
our discussion list such as how to unsubscribe for example.
- "Which chipset in my modem?"
Beginners:please read this first.
Use scanModem:
You can quickly identify PCI modems chipsets and recommended
drivers, and find installers, by downloading
the most recent version, if not already done today, of
scanModem
,
a script by Marv Stodolsky, stored
compressed to avoid potential mistakes if downloaded under some "Other" system
(DOS,Windows).
In your own interest, never use an old scanModem nor any scanModem downloaded from any other site.
Since you have just downloaded scanModem, download
unloading, which you may well need later if you install the alsa based slmodem driver.
How to use scanModem:
Beginners may want to read the scanModem
installation instructions.
Do not try to decompress nor run
scanModem under any system except Linux!!
After decompression (command gunzip scanModem.gz ), do not
forget to make it executable with chmod +x scanModem, and then
launch the command typing ./scanModem , or trigger it
with source scanModem .
scanModem writes files full with information in a new subdirectory named Modem .
Some of the tests may require to run scanModem as a superuser, which you can do as follows:
- By logging in as root if you are not a Debian/Ubuntu user.
- By becoming root while already logged in as a regular user, if
you are not a Debian/Ubuntu user. The command to achieve that is su
(avoid using su - here, just su, or you will need to type the full path to scanModem).
- If you ARE a Debian/Ubuntu user, use the syntax sudo ./scanModem
For your convenience, see typical scanModem
output.
These files are frightening for a newcomer, so if you do not
understand them, send the file ModemData.txt
and only that file to
our discussion list and volunteers will help you.
Modemsite.com may be of further
help.
In the very few cases where scanModem may fail to identify your modem,
try ATI commands under Windows
.
- "Is my modem supported?"
Rob Clark's
information page and
comprehensive database.
- "Where can I found support?"
Sean Walbran's page for
linmodem resources,
once identified.
- "How To, then?"
Sean Walbran's and Marv Stodolsky's linmodem
HOWTO (introduction, technical details, FAQ's).
- "Wow! my modem is Lucent DSP based!"
Marv Stodolsky's updated LTmodem resources page
(you know that you have a supported Lucent chipset and wish to install
its driver).
- "Some other modems are supported, too!"
Sean Walbran's page for
linmodem resources.
Our archive
This archive is constructed using
Glimpse and WebGlimpse, with our
gratitude to their authors and owners.
-
Look at
Glimpse syntax first!
- "Has my problem already been solved recently (2011 onwards) ?"
Years 2011 and 2012 linmodems discussion list search
engine.
- "Or in 2010?"
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engine.
- "Or in 2009?"
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- "Or in 2003?"
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engine.
- "Or between mid 2001 and end 2002"
Mid 2001 through end 2002 linmodems discussion list search engine.
- "Perhaps even before mid 2001?"
The very first linmodems discussion list search engine.
- Or just try Google (sometimes less efficient)
A few individual reports on specific computers:
You may also look at a more recent
review by Erin Williams.
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Department of Physics, Technion, Haifa, Israel
Last updated: 10/06/2012
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