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To: Scumbria who wrote (22768)	12/18/2000 2:08:42 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

RE:"Linux can't find my modem for example." I thought you bought that thing from a Linux place. They sold you a computer without a recognized modem? Or did you add the modem yourself? Must be some list of modems with Linux drivers... Jim

To: Scumbria who wrote (22768)	12/18/2000 7:27:05 AM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 275872

RE: Linux and modems A real sore point with me right now. Let me guess, your modem is either integrated or a PCI-based one. In which case it is more than like a WinModem, i.e. it depends on Windows software to supply some of it's functionality. Since the manufacturers are reluctant to a) write Linux drivers (which I can understand) and b) release the information needed to write said drivers (which I DON'T understand), then Linux users are SOL. As are both of the BeOS users, et al. Now there is some support for the PC-Tel chips, but that is about it.

To: Scumbria who wrote (22768)	12/18/2000 10:00:48 AM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Dear Scumbria: My family runs Linux on eight different computers. Only one is an Intel machine (a lowly P133 with 256MB SDRAM) and the rest are AMDs, three are on Soyo motherboards, 1 on an ASUS, 2 on Epox, and the last on a Supermicro. There are no problems finding an active modem (turned on when Linux boots) The reason for this is the automatic configurers on the newer versions reconfigure based on what they see during bootup. That includes laser printers on hot standby (HP LaserJet 6L has this problem sometimes), modems, external disk and tape drives, scanners, etc. There are ways to force the configurator to act as if it found the devices any way. No, Scumbria, whoever told you that AMD based motherboards are not perfectly usable under Linux is sadly mistaken. Take my word for it as I write device drivers for Linux and UNIX systems of various flavors and have used Linux for many years. Pete