[HLUG] Anyone had success with Lucent 56k (winmodem) in Ubuntu 5.10?

[box lawrence]

i have an old us robotics 56k serial modem if you want
it.

BoX
--- Matt Rhys-Roberts <matt.rhys-roberts at q-par.com>
wrote:

> Thanks to all who replied...
> 
> Well, I got as far as running ./scanmodem to
> discover my winmodem's 
> requirements, as directed by linmodems.org. Then I
> was put off by the 
> sheer amount of extra things it needed, ie. me
> having to manually 
> getting and putting code and drivers in the right
> place. I was 
> overwhelmed by the number of components I'd need to
> get, and the total 
> complexity (ie. reduced likelihood of success) of
> the whole exercise.
> 
> So I have chosen the path of least resistance, which
> is to grab an old 
> 56k external serial modem, and persevere with that
> instead!
> 
> Cheers,
> Matt
> 
> 
> box lawrence wrote:
> 
> >linmodems.org have always got me sorted.
> >
> >you can get a script which will tell you the driver
> >you require and even (i think) provide the URL to
> get
> >it.
> >
> >BoX
> >  
> >
> 
> >>On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 11:02 +0000, Matt
> Rhys-Roberts
> >>wrote:
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Would be interested to know how feasible this is.
> If it's too horrible, I'll grab a plain external
> serial modem...
> >>>
> >>>Cheers
> >>>Matt Rhys-Roberts
> >>>
> 
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