Fedora 5 works perfectly, except usb modem

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 23:38 +0100, William d'Ormond wrote:
>  
> Point of e-mail: How do you get fedora 5 to detect and install a USB
> dial-up modem (DC-009 V2 Sitecom)?
>  
> Hi everyone,
>  
> I'm not really a linux newbie... but please treat me as one.
> A long time ago I installed Fedora 3 and had a lovely time with it.
> But then my laptop's internal winmodem broke (I had spent considerable
> effort getting it to run with smartlink linmodem drivers (slmodem
> 2.7.9 or something like that)).
>  
> I then went and bought a USB modem. This I thought would cure all
> problems associated with linux compatibility. It works under Windows,
> obviously, however, I have now moved completely on to Fedora 5 and
> deleted the windows partition. 
> Fedora 5 does not detect anything when the USB modem is plugged in...
> in fact it only detects the broken internal modem which I cannot use.
> This is strange as the modem lights on the USB modem turn on when I
> plug it into a USB port. 
>  
> I now have absolutely NO IDEA how to start getting this stupid USB
> modem to work under linux. Smartlink has given up linux support it
> seems, and has switched to connexant (linuxant.com ). Actually I can't
> find the chipset of this modem under google anywhere, and can't detect
> it at all in linux, so I'm not even sure it's a Connexant chipset. I
> am presuming it is an HCF modem type?????
>  
> Can someone please help me out, because I won't be able to access
> internet at home if I can't dial up a connection on my phone line.
>  

AFAIK there are still problems using USB modems with Linux.
Try www.linmodems.org and see if the people there can help.  I believe
they write most of the drivers for the various winmodems that are now
being used in Linux.

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