Re: Lenovo T410 modem difficulties
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, Camaleón wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:27:44 -0700, Bill wrote:
> > I was wondering if anyone had succeeded in getting the POTS built-in
> > modem on a T410 to work with squeeze. I only need the modem for a backup
> > on those rare occasions when POTS is all there is, but I would like to
> > have it configured.
>
> Those damn software modems are a bunch of... I better shut up :-)
You will have to buy a driver from Linuxant if you want that thing to work.
> > After a night on Google, I discover that the Linuxant module is
> > essentially marketing bait for a commercial upgrade. So no way to that.
> > I'm not a purist exactly, but I only have 5 non-free packages on the
> > system. One more won't matter but I intend to stick with free software
> > as far as possible.
>
> Linuxant provides a free (but limited) version of the drivers, maybe
> that's fine for your requirements.
>
> http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hsf/full/downloads.php
You're better off paying for those drivers, really. You either need the
modem and the paid linuxant driver, or you don't need it that much and
you'll be much better off disabling the modem in the BIOS.
> Or better yet, get a real modem >:-)
That would be either a cdc-acm USB device, which can be rather difficult to
find... or a USB RS232 dongle plus an async RS232 modem (large and somewhat
expensive).
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