Sagem F@st 800 and Linspire

[rotaman]

HI all,

I am currently trying to convert myself to Linspire, since i am sick of Windows and want to discover this whole new world of "stable" computing. So recently i acquired Linspire for free, and set up a dual boot between it and Windows XP, which i am keeping for gaming, etc.

Everything went well with the linspire install. I am having only one problem, connecting to the net. Through my ISP, I have a Sagem F@ast 800-840 modem (stupid little thing), which is connected by USB. This is however not supported by Linspire. So I called my ISP, who told me they didn't support Linux, and told me to go to Sagem about getting me a driver which would enable me to use this modem with Linspire. On the Sagem site, I found a driver, but it doesn't work. If anyone can help, please get back to me!

Thanks

 

[RhythmAce]

Nobody who can help you speaks english. I did a google for your modem and found one page that was transleted from french. It's a how-to for installing a Sagem F@st 800 on a Debian Gnu/linux system. You may need to further translate it into linspireez but it should get you pointed in the right direction. Here's the link:

http://www.loria.fr/~stuber/adsl/debian-sagem-fast-800.html

 

[rotaman]

Thank you for your reply. I am actually in France, apparently this modem is quite frequently used in ISP subscription packs, but unfortunaly quite a few ISPs don't offer support for Linux, which is stupid. Let me check that out. Any more info will be much appreciated.

 

[rotaman]

Well I've gotten sick of it, like many a person who has tried to get this piece of crap Sagem modem working with linspire. So i've decided to opt for Mandrake 10.0, which seems to support this modem. If anyone knows if this is true or not, i'd like a confirmation, as i will not bother downloading and installing mandrake if this usb modem isn't supported.

Cheers!

 

[stefanwagner]

I don't know linspire, nor mandrake from usage.
But a piece of hardware working on one linux shall work on every linux.

A differece might be
a) is the driver included in the distro
b) do you like and know the installation procedure(s) of that distro
c) which kernel is used in that distro?

A driver for a pre 2.6 kernel will not work under 2.6 and vice versa.
So what did you find exactly on the sagem-site, and what didn't work?

Of course, if the driver for the modem is included in this distro, and autodetection of hardware detects it, installation might be more easy.

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[rotaman]

That's exactly it.

I checked for the Sagem driver on the sagem site, and it exists, but being very new to linux, the procedure seems quite complicated. The reason for Mandrake was very simple - as you stated, the driver was included in the distro, and the hardware detection was therefore much easier etc.

What i am currently doing is trying to move away from Windows like many, as i would like to give some of this great opensource a chance, simply because it seems a lot more stable, and I'm just sick of Microsoft, and constantly rebooting! The problem with that is: if you've been used to working w/ microsoft for a number of years, it takes a certain time to adapt to the works of linux.

Right now i've got Mandrake installed, and am trying to figure out how to get it to connect to the net, etc. Any advice would be welcome, as i am literally a novice at this.

 

[stefanwagner]

Some/ most distros have a [config|setup]-modem-[config|setup][.sh] script to assist this.
Perhaps the driver-installation has some work done.

Do you have kde? kppp is a nice gui-tool to setup your internet-connection.
Details of things that happen behind the scene differ a little from distro to distro.

Tell us where you stuck exactly, and what you managed already.


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[rotaman]

Well i finally am a linux user! although still a newbie. What i have found is that mandrake is a very easy to use system, a great way of introduction into linux. I have managed to get my USB sagem connected by using the DNS parameters of my ISP etc, and i am now trying to figure out how to use all the great apps i have.

I do have a question, on bootup, i get a lot of different options, which i will post later, and would like to know what they mean. I am currently dual booting Mandrake 10 and Windows XP pro, and it's a blast.