I installed fedora core 5 on my computer with a US Robotics 56KB PCI
card fax/modem. Linux does not detect any modems. I did not find any
linux drivers on the us robotics website. Are there any places where you
can download linux drivers for this modem?
Thanks,
JM

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:50:01 GMT, JM wrote:
> I installed fedora core 5 on my computer with a US Robotics 56KB PCI
> card fax/modem. Linux does not detect any modems. I did not find any
> linux drivers on the us robotics website. Are there any places where you
> can download linux drivers for this modem?

No idea about your PCI card. I installed a PCI card in my neighbors pc.
In a nutshell you use setserial in /etc/rc.local to make linux aware
of the modem. Snippet I placed in /etc/rc.local which checks if the
modem is installed. If so, setserial with values I found with lspci -v


#************************************************* *******************
#* how to get/set pci mode. Here we search for a Zoom pci modem
#* pci values found with lspci -v. Use First I/O port at value
#************************************************* *******************

_cnt=$(lspci -v | grep --count "Agere Systems Venus Modem")
if [ $_cnt -gt 0 ] ; then
setserial /dev/ttyS3 uart 16550A port 0xdf00 irq 16
fi

JM wrote:
> I installed fedora core 5 on my computer with a US Robotics 56KB PCI
> card fax/modem. Linux does not detect any modems. I did not find any
> linux drivers on the us robotics website. Are there any places where you
> can download linux drivers for this modem?
> Thanks,
> JM

First, update to Fedora 7 or 8, if possible. Fedora Core 5 is *off* the
supported list.

Second, USR has done a lot of sins with their modems. Please specify the
model, and try to find out if it's a Winmodem. Then install "HylaFAX",
prefereably the recent one at sourceforge.net, and run "faxsetup" and
"faxaddmodem" and let us know what you see.

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> JM wrote:
>> I installed fedora core 5 on my computer with a US Robotics 56KB PCI
>> card fax/modem. Linux does not detect any modems. I did not find any
>> linux drivers on the us robotics website. Are there any places where
>> you can download linux drivers for this modem?
>> Thanks,
>> JM
>
> First, update to Fedora 7 or 8, if possible. Fedora Core 5 is *off* the
> supported list.
>
> Second, USR has done a lot of sins with their modems. Please specify the
> model, and try to find out if it's a Winmodem. Then install "HylaFAX",
> prefereably the recent one at sourceforge.net, and run "faxsetup" and
> "faxaddmodem" and let us know what you see.

I just realized that it is a Winmodem. The model number is 5699B and the
us robotics website says that it's a Winmodem. I downloaded HylaFAX from
sourceforge.net and will let you know the results as soon as possible.

Second, I would upgrade to fedora 8, but my computer doesn't have enough
RAM so it would be very slow. I can't upgrade the RAM because it has the
max on it right now.
Thanks,
JM

On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:48:13 GMT, JM <1@2.3> wrote:
>Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>> JM wrote:
>>> I installed fedora core 5 on my computer with a US Robotics 56KB PCI
>>> card fax/modem. Linux does not detect any modems. I did not find any
>>> linux drivers on the us robotics website. Are there any places where
>>> you can download linux drivers for this modem?
>>> Thanks,
>>> JM
>>
>> First, update to Fedora 7 or 8, if possible. Fedora Core 5 is *off* the
>> supported list.
>>
>> Second, USR has done a lot of sins with their modems. Please specify the
>> model, and try to find out if it's a Winmodem. Then install "HylaFAX",
>> prefereably the recent one at sourceforge.net, and run "faxsetup" and
>> "faxaddmodem" and let us know what you see.

>I just realized that it is a Winmodem. The model number is 5699B and the
>us robotics website says that it's a Winmodem. I downloaded HylaFAX from
>sourceforge.net and will let you know the results as soon as possible.

>Second, I would upgrade to fedora 8, but my computer doesn't have enough
>RAM so it would be very slow. I can't upgrade the RAM because it has the
>max on it right now.

Fedora 8 doesn't need any more ram with the exception of the berryl
window manager.

JM wrote:
> Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>> JM wrote:
>>> I installed fedora core 5 on my computer with a US Robotics 56KB PCI
>>> card fax/modem. Linux does not detect any modems. I did not find any
>>> linux drivers on the us robotics website. Are there any places where
>>> you can download linux drivers for this modem? Thanks, JM
>>
>> First, update to Fedora 7 or 8, if possible. Fedora Core 5 is *off* the
>> supported list.
>>
>> Second, USR has done a lot of sins with their modems. Please specify
>> the model, and try to find out if it's a Winmodem. Then install
>> "HylaFAX", prefereably the recent one at sourceforge.net, and run
>> "faxsetup" and "faxaddmodem" and let us know what you see.
>
> I just realized that it is a Winmodem. The model number is 5699B and the
> us robotics website says that it's a Winmodem. I downloaded HylaFAX from
> sourceforge.net and will let you know the results as soon as possible.
>
Right. The good real PCI modem from USR is the 5610B.


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On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<hOADj.6454$%Y2.662@trnddc08>, JM wrote:

>I just realized that it is a Winmodem. The model number is 5699B and the
>us robotics website says that it's a Winmodem.

Yeah, that's the Analog Devices AD1807JS chipset that no one has ever
bothered to create a driver for. http://pciids.sf.net/ has a list of
six USR modems (look under '56K FaxModem Model 5610') that work as is.

>Second, I would upgrade to fedora 8, but my computer doesn't have enough
>RAM so it would be very slow. I can't upgrade the RAM because it has the
>max on it right now.

From the RELEASE-NOTES file from FC5:

Recommended for text-mode: 200 MHz Pentium-class or better
Recommended for graphical: 400 MHz Pentium II or better
AMD64 processors (both Athlon64 and Opteron)
Intel processors with Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology (Intel EM64T)

Minimum RAM for text-mode: 128MiB
Minimum RAM for graphical: 192MiB
Recommended for graphical: 256MiB

From the RELEASE-NOTES file from FC8:

Fedora 8 requires an Intel Pentium or better processor, and is optimized
for Pentium 4 and later processors.
* Recommended for text-mode: 200 MHz Pentium-class or better
* Recommended for graphical: 400 MHz Pentium II or better
* Minimum RAM for text-mode: 128MiB
* Minimum RAM for graphical: 192MiB
* Recommended RAM for graphical: 256MiB

Doesn't look much different to me.

Old guy

Moe Trin wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
> <hOADj.6454$%Y2.662@trnddc08>, JM wrote:
>
>> I just realized that it is a Winmodem. The model number is 5699B and the
>> us robotics website says that it's a Winmodem.
>
> Yeah, that's the Analog Devices AD1807JS chipset that no one has ever
> bothered to create a driver for. http://pciids.sf.net/ has a list of
> six USR modems (look under '56K FaxModem Model 5610') that work as is.
>
>> Second, I would upgrade to fedora 8, but my computer doesn't have enough
>> RAM so it would be very slow. I can't upgrade the RAM because it has the
>> max on it right now.
>
> From the RELEASE-NOTES file from FC5:
>
> Recommended for text-mode: 200 MHz Pentium-class or better
> Recommended for graphical: 400 MHz Pentium II or better
> AMD64 processors (both Athlon64 and Opteron)
> Intel processors with Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology (Intel EM64T)
>
> Minimum RAM for text-mode: 128MiB
> Minimum RAM for graphical: 192MiB
> Recommended for graphical: 256MiB
>
> From the RELEASE-NOTES file from FC8:
>
> Fedora 8 requires an Intel Pentium or better processor, and is optimized
> for Pentium 4 and later processors.
> * Recommended for text-mode: 200 MHz Pentium-class or better
> * Recommended for graphical: 400 MHz Pentium II or better
> * Minimum RAM for text-mode: 128MiB
> * Minimum RAM for graphical: 192MiB
> * Recommended RAM for graphical: 256MiB
>
> Doesn't look much different to me.

Thanks. I guess I will upgrade to Fedora 8.
JM

Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> JM wrote:
>> Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>>> JM wrote:
>>>> I installed fedora core 5 on my computer with a US Robotics 56KB PCI
>>>> card fax/modem. Linux does not detect any modems. I did not find any
>>>> linux drivers on the us robotics website. Are there any places where
>>>> you can download linux drivers for this modem? Thanks, JM
>>> First, update to Fedora 7 or 8, if possible. Fedora Core 5 is *off* the
>>> supported list.
>>>
>>> Second, USR has done a lot of sins with their modems. Please specify
>>> the model, and try to find out if it's a Winmodem. Then install
>>> "HylaFAX", prefereably the recent one at sourceforge.net, and run
>>> "faxsetup" and "faxaddmodem" and let us know what you see.
>> I just realized that it is a Winmodem. The model number is 5699B and the
>> us robotics website says that it's a Winmodem. I downloaded HylaFAX from
>> sourceforge.net and will let you know the results as soon as possible.
>>
> Right. The good real PCI modem from USR is the 5610B.
>
>
Thanks. I'll look into getting one.
JM