Ubuntu
gnome-system-tools package

  1. Bug #22119
  2. Comment #20

Comment 20 for bug 22119

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jkohler2 (jkohler2) wrote :

My laptop is a Dell 4150 and my pcmcia modem is an old IBM datafax 56k unit with an x-jack connector (model fru 02k4248).

The last versino of Linux that would detect the modem and dial out was Fedora 3 which had a program KUDZU that found the modem during installation and called it a "generic" modem.
The GNOME network configuration program identified the modem as ttyS3 and local dial up was perfect.

From Fedora 4 on up, the pcmcia driver in the kernel changed from PCMCIA-cs to PCMCIA -utils
and no version of Fedora will drive the modem now.

I tried Ubuntu 6 and 7 and used the GNOME network configuration to run ppp0 and the dial up modem.

All the values stay in place except the tone/pulse selection which keeps going back to pulse on my system.

Are PCMCIA modems out of date for all current Linux Kernels, including Ubuntu?

John