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| eagle222 Tl Posts: 6 USA | Posted - 7/30/2002 10:46:34 AM    I am trying to help someone. He has a US Robotics 56k x2 internal modem. He has Mandrake Linux 7.0. Usually he connects at 50k. The ISP has changed the dial-in equipment to a Portmaster 3 which is compatible with Flex and v90 and now this user is getting only 31 kbps. Is there anyway to upgrade/enable v.90 with this modem with a Linux system? US Robotics 56k internal The ATI7 command shows as follows: EPROM date 3/21/97 EPROM rev 4.2.21 |
| v.Richard Tl Posts: 6222 USA | Posted - 7/31/2002 10:58:12 AM  I don't think so. The modem must be flashed, and USR's flash software is Windows-based. You could take the modem out of the machine, install it temporarily on a Windows machine, update the modem, and then put it back in the Linux box. Aloha! Richard. |
| eagle222 Tl Posts: 6 USA | Posted - 7/31/2002 12:16:43 PM Ok. I have the site for USRobotics firmware upgrade. However, with Windows you are required to also install a driver to instruct Windows to accept and use the changes on the modem. Can I do without the driver in Linux? Here is the driver link: http://www.usr.com/support/drivers-template.asp?prod=s-modem |
| v.Richard Tl Posts: 6222 USA | Posted - 7/31/2002 1:27:21 PM The driver is just the .inf file that defines the modem command set and responses - used only by Windows. Linux doesn't require a 'modem driver' for a hardware-controller based modem. The modem appears as a COM port. (If the modem is PCI, there needs to be support for the COM port through the PCI bus.) Aloha! Richard. |
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