Modem not detected.
John Sutherland
fedora at sneeu.com
Fri Feb 13 07:00:56 UTC 2004
From the info I've found on google, it appears that the Dell Inspiron
has a winmodem - though it appears that it works ok under linux, here's
what I found:
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/G.Wilford/Inspiron8500/
John S.
Vikas.Bhasin at britishairways.com wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm not able to configure my modem on laptop. I have Dell Inspiron 8500.
> Fedora installed successfully thought every time i boot my machine, It
> stops at activating network and then i get error of unresolved IP
> address for ethernet card eth0. To avoid this, i removed the card from
> system settings.
>
> Yesterday only i got internet connection so I tried it on my laptop but
> i was unaware that Fedora never detected the modem on my laptop. I tried
> running internet connection wizard and network configurator but couldn't
> make it to detect my modem. I feel, i can make an external modem connect
> to serial port to work as i've done it before on RH5.6 but i want to use
> the inbuilt modem. I'm not very good at Linux but want to explore and
> understand it.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Vikas
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