External Modem List Needed
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Hello Everyone,
As most of you here including me who are Newbies have most likely found out your Windows Modem either requires a "Driver" or won't work at all in Linux. Luckily Mepis 4.3 got me on the net when Debian, Mandriva, SuSe, Ubuntu etc etc failed.
I had already done some web searching before installing Mepis and had found out that my modem model was compatable with linux.
As all the other Newbies most likely have done is download a driver from www.heby.de/ltmodem installed it with Apt-get and still had no luck in getting their modem to work.
As I have now confirmed the my modem works with a successful connection to the internet with Mepis 4.3 why doesn't the driver work when installed in other Debian Distro's, I know that the Mepis Ltmodem driver is the same one as from Heby.de, but why does it work in Mepis but makes no difference when downloaded from the site.
To all you Linux experts out there who are sick of this problem, can you please make a step by step guide that a monkey could understand on installing the Driver and the required setup needed after the install from heby.de for those Modems that work with Linux.
Also for those who's Modem has no chance of working with Linux a a model list of external modems that are Linux complatable which are readily available in most countrys so these poor buggers can go and get themselves one of these Modems and enjoy surfing the net with their Linux.
As most users would place being able to connect to the internet as the most important use thay have for their computers, it seems in the best interest of Linux for this problem to be improved on if the numbers of Linux users is to grow.
Research in Australia suggests that 60% of internet users are still using Dial-up over Broadband so it is in the interests of Linux to put into place more info as to a Newbie, Linux is a Alien world.
Last thing, if all the above is already in place some where, can you please post a link and help all us poor buggers out there who want to be part of the Linux world 
dear samuelmp
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thankyou for your short explicit comment.
however, serial ports are getting rare on computers, and the forum participants are free to discuss how to make their particular rare piece of hardware work.
Internal pci v90 works with Mepis
Posts: 311
Just thought some would like to know
http://ussa.supremeserver14.com/product_info.php?products_id=222
Writing this msg using one on dialup right now
using 3.3.1-1 stable
hi there dont know why your
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hi there dont know why your modem works with mepis and not other distros
what was the modem doing on those other distros like ubuntu and debian was it trying to dile out but then you could not access the internet with any program
any acnolegment of the modem been see by the other debian distros any thing at all
you could try to install the source of that driver .tgz
on those distros
my be it could be how they see the modem or some DSN seting some where or somting like that
may be it was calling your modem somthing elce like
/dev/modem2
where you thought it would be
/dev/modem
what dile out tool where you using to dile out with
kppp? prehaps
i think there is quite a few reasions that it dont work with them it could even be the way the file's where packeged up
have you thought about
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have you thought about buying a serial modem as they always work in Linux