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Red Hat 8.0 and dialup

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B727

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Jul 19, 2002
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I am fairly new to Linux and have loaded it along with XP in a dual boot on both my PC and laptop with no problem. I am however having trouble with getting sound to work on my PC and the dialup ... Kppp and anything else I try to use does not seem to work. Anyone have a clue as to what I can try or have a link to a site? I am running RH 8.0 on a Dell 2650 laptop and also on a generic PC with PIV. Thanks
 
You could start off by letting us know what make & model is your modem. Do keep in mind that most of our modern day systems use what is called a software modem i.e. a modem without a DSP chip. The task of modulating & de-modulating is done by the CPU. Although the lack of a DSP chip make them cheep to manufacture, but most of them are not suppoerted on Linux.
 
ok, on my PC I am using a Zoom V.92 PCI Voice Fax modem and the sound card is a VIA AC'97 on my laptop modem is an ACTIONTEC MD56ORD V92 MDC and the sound card intel AC'97 controller Sigmatel codec
 
I did a search ( on the modem for your notebook and found out that its a winmodem (software modem). Looks like your best choice is to get an external modem that has a DSP chip (most external USB modem are also winmodems) for your notebook.

There was not much that I could find out about your Zoom modem, but most likely its also another winmodem.

If you're PC's motherboard is using a VIA 82C686 Southbridge then you may need to recompile your kernel for sound support as it IS supported.

Again, I not sure about your intel sound card.

Hope I've helped you out there!
 
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