[wellylug] Installfest modem issues

[Damon Lynch]

On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 02:54, Wood Brent wrote:
> --- Chris Hodgetts <chris at archnetnz.com> wrote:
> > I am looking at registering the Conextant drivers some time in the next
> > few weeks.
> > 
> > It;s about $15 USD if I recall correctly, but there are free ones
> > limited to 14.4 Data only - No Fax... but I made a connection using
> > these drivers and got a 38400 connection, so I don't understand.
> > 
> > But they do work flawlessly in Debian with the .deb drivers that
> > contextant provide... and even work with the 2.6.5 kernel.
> > 
> 
> If you are happy to support conexant installs on the day, fine :-) That still
> leaves Motorola/PCtel/AMR/.... I'd like to be able to provide a cheapish
> solution which simplifies installs. Given DSE's role, & the fact that their
> Intel chipset modem comes with Linux drivers, I'll look into that as well.
> 
> Has anyone tried it? Know anything about it? The chipset seems well supported
> under Linux. The disk comes with OO etc bundled on it as well....

Last I looked (a few months ago), they only worked with older kernels --
Intel had not released drivers for later kernels, and with the change in
gcc versions since that time, this was a real problem.  

Damon

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