 Would My Modem Be Supported ? |
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 Jul 15 2006, 03:47 PM
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Binary Geek  Group: Members Posts: 444 Joined: 4-November 05 From: The Digital Arena Member No.: 9,440  |
Ok .. my question .. would linux support my ADSL modem ? .. i have suse installed on my laptop .. but never had the guts to connect to the internet
 .. fearing that my system might not be safe and tweaked enuf to go on the WWW. Wouldent go full fledged unless i know my system right. I have never gone nor bothered to see if my modem would install .. but in future .. if i need .. would it be possible ? .. i own a lucent cell pipe 20A usb modem .. Regards Dhanesh. |
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Jul 15 2006, 04:14 PM
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Newbie [ Level 2 ] Group: Members Posts: 15 Joined: 2-July 06 From: OH Member No.: 14,264 |
All linux distros are ok to connect to the net. There should be no problem connecting to your modem. I use suse sometimes and I have a motorola adsl modem. Suse has probably the best security for your system because it is commercialy sold as well as open source.
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Jul 15 2006, 04:43 PM
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PsYcheDeLiC dR3aMeR  Group: Admin Posts: 2,242 Joined: 29-January 05 From: Nakorn Chaisri, Thailand Member No.: 2,411 |
Check out this forum thread on LinusISO.org. Someone with the same problem found a solution:
http://forums.linuxiso.org/viewtopic.php?t...00cf6e634f01391 |
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Jul 15 2006, 05:47 PM
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Binary Geek Group: Members Posts: 444 Joined: 4-November 05 From: The Digital Arena Member No.: 9,440 |
Hell yeah .. the site mentioned by this dude .. gives every ADSL driver available ... and there is a one for SuSe too
.. i'll try this out and let u know abt the results .. just hope its an install and run only .. Regards Dhanesh. |
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Jul 15 2006, 11:37 PM
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Colonel Panic  Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 2,782 Joined: 25-March 05 From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Member No.: 3,233 |
ADSL providers usually use something called PPPoE for authencation to see whenever you connect the net and to monitor your bandwidth. Luckily, SuSE has the easiest tool to connect to an ADSL network.
K Menu --> System --> YaST2 --> Network Devices --> DSL 1. Press Add 2. Make sure that the PPP mode is PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE) 3. Device Activation can be set to whatever you want. 4. Choose your provider. If your provider is NOT found, press Custom Provider. 5. If you choose Custom Provider, enter in their information. 6. Press next again, unless you can type in customized parameters. 7. Done! Now try your ADSL service by going to Konqueror or Mozilla Firefox and type in your local Google URL. For me, it's google.ca To check if your internet is working properly, you can do these steps. 1. Open Konsole (or any shell) 2. Type in: CODE ping -c 5 google.ca *You may change google.ca to any URL.* If it's successful, it should show something like this: QUOTE root@penguin1:~> ping -c 5 google.ca PING google.ca (216.239.59.104) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 216.239.59.104: icmp_seq=1 ttl=237 time=114 ms 64 bytes from 216.239.59.104: icmp_seq=2 ttl=237 time=113 ms 64 bytes from 216.239.59.104: icmp_seq=3 ttl=237 time=113 ms 64 bytes from 216.239.59.104: icmp_seq=4 ttl=237 time=112 ms 64 bytes from 216.239.59.104: icmp_seq=5 ttl=237 time=112 ms --- google.ca ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4000ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 112.274/113.303/114.694/0.928 ms Enjoy! xboxrulz |
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Feb 28 2007, 04:31 AM
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Member [ Level 1 ] Group: Members Posts: 34 Joined: 13-August 06 Member No.: 15,185 |
Installing an Internel Modem is quite heavy task. me too having an internel (Smart link Modem). I mhaving the drivers too. But not able to install it successfully. Then now i musing the Airtel GPRS Connection and there is the problem too i m not having the Drivers for the CA-42 cable. So If u are able to install the modem then tell me too.
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Jul 7 2007, 07:21 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 145 Joined: 6-October 05 Member No.: 8,941 |
I also struggled quite a bit when I needed to install my CDMA modem in Linux. But finally I made it. But now I am not using Linux as my primary account.
The most amazing thing is that in Windows I need to install a hefty driver to install and make the modem detected and make it working, but if it is in Linux it is a simple text file (*.txt) that I just need to paste the data in that to a configuration file using any editor. But finding how to do that initially was a bit difficult for me..But now I am happy.. 
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