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F*****g winmodems

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Pantso:
You're not hijacking my thread Calum. On the contrary, I have the same question myself and I was gonna post it anyway  ;)  . I don't have any experience with PCMCIA slots since I used the Lucent Winmodem->Linmodem on my old Toshiba laptop. All I know is that the 2.4.* kernel loads the PCMCIA drivers at startup. At least that's the case with SuSE 8.0 and Mandrake 8.2.

TheQuirk:
http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/PCMCIA-HOWTO-1.html

Centurian:
Or you could just make it easy on yourself and buy an external modem such as a USR 56K Sportster. All you have to do is plug it in and both linux and windows will support it for sure.

Pantso:
Thanks for the replies guys. I found the answer to my problems, at least temporarily, by using my external modem and a USB<->serial adapter. Keep in mind that the Omnibook doesn't come with a serial port. So, I specified my modem as /dev/ttyUSB0 and now I'm browsing the Internet in Linux. However, due to reasons of portability (it's a laptop after all), I decided to buy an external PCMCIA modem. We'll see!

Thanks again  ;)

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