[lug] Laptops again
Michael J. Hammel
mjhammel at graphics-muse.org
Thu Sep 14 12:42:03 MDT 2000
Thus spoke Kevin Fenzi
> well, yes...there is a binary only lucent winmodem driver. I played
> with it on my laptop a while back. Some problems with it tho:
>
> - It's compiled for kernel 2.2.12-20 (the one that shipped with orig
> redhat 6.2). If you are using a diffrent kernel it probibly won't
> work. (you can insmod -f it in 2.2.x kernels, but forget 2.4.x)
True, though he did ask for preinstalled Linux, which could be interpreted
as "I don't care all that much which kernel it runs."
> - On my laptop at least it gives the winmodem the same IRQ as the
> sound drivers. So, if you try and use it and listen to music at the
> same time they both fail to work very well.
Ditto, except that on mine only the external speakers squeal. The internal
audio works fine, so I just plug in some head phones and I'm a happy
camper.
> - none of the cool special features are implemented. This binary only
> driver gives you just a serial port to use for modem calls. You
> can't do voice mail or all that fun stuff.
Never tried that. Hell, I hardly use voice mail on my regular phones. I
hate phones.
> that all said, if you are in need of a modem and you are running the
> right kernel the lucent one works ok. :)
Granted, it's not a perfect solution. Still, it worked first time out on
my particular box. Made me pretty happy since all other documentation I
found said internal modems wouldn't work.
One other caveat to using an IBM 1410 - I never figured out how to get the
CD to play without booting into Linux. Apparently, I trashed something by
intalling Linux over the original Windows installation that prevents the
buttons on the edge of the laptop from working. At least that's my
interpretation. I can't get those buttons to work, even when I'm booted.
I have to use one of the software CD players to use the CD for music.
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