[plug] Fw: [plug-ctte] Modem problems

[Adam Ashley]

On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 20:42 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> Frankly, this illustrates one of my concerns about installfests and 
> about people telling others that "you should use linux". It's very hard 
> to properly explain to people the issues they're likely to encounter 
> such as their PCI/USB 56k/DSL modem, webcam, 3D accel, external disk 
> devices, 802.11{ag} hardware, etc possibly not working or taking 
> considerable extra effort to get working.
> 
> In particular, I think the winmodem spiel (TM) is very, very important. 
> "These things are a pain, and don't work well with Linux. I don't know 
> if your model will work and don't have time to look into it now, so be 
> aware that you may not be able to use it under Linux or it might take a 
> lot of complex fiddling."
> 

actually at the installfest i was helping one guy with his gentoo
install and it took less than 5mins to get the winmodem working :)

of course it was a lucent winmodem so

emerge ltmodem
killall -HUP devfsd

Adam