Re: Softmodems and Debian
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 12:11:40PM -0400, Person, Rod wrote:
> I FINALLY got Debian up and running to my liking with the help of a few
> if not more of you guys thanks.
>
> But here is something that hit me on the way to work today. I have a
> Digicom Softmodem. I have to load an algorithm before I can use it. In
> DOS it was quite simple.
>
> path=c:\smodem;c\
> dl data144b.xtd
>
> That's all my autoexec.bat needed. I just realized that is why Seyon is
> hanging for me. Does anyone out there use a softmodem? Are the loader
> and algorithm ported to Linux???? (I know the answer is no!!). I think
> I'm going to have to load the DOS algorithm from Debian. How do I do
> this? After all I'm still a newbie.....
Two possibilities come to mind:
1) Boot DOS first, and load linux from loadlin instead of LILO. You can
use FreeDOS if you don't want to use DOS.
2) Use dosemu to load the code after Debian has booted.
I used #2 once to get a Digicom modem working. I ended up returning it
to the store anyway.
Jeff
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