REQ: Stand Alone Windows Dialer <- Wine <- Redhat 7.3

[REMbranded]

I don't think that this is going to fly, but I might be surprised.

I have a Lucent Winmodem. It works fine, so I don't want to buy
another hardware controlled modem unless I must.

I want to be able to connect in Redhat 7.3. I found a patch, but it
doesn't work.

I was wondering if anyone knows of a dialer that is stand alone (does
not rely on DUN) that might run via Wine in Redhat. I just tried one
(WinDialer, nice!) and it was pages of errors in my version of Wine.
I'm getting a new version of Wine now, but at 35 megs it'll be
tommorow before I see it <G>. I thought I'd put this out and see if
anyone has any ideas while it's downloading to utilize the @#@#$$ win
modem via Wine.

..

 

[Mikey]

Hi;
Why the @#@#$$ name calling when YOU bought a WINmodem just to save @#@#$$
$$?
Be consequent!
Mikey

 

[Richard Steven Hack]

I have a Lucent Winmodem. It works fine, so I don't want to buy
another hardware controlled modem unless I must.

I want to be able to connect in Redhat 7.3. I found a patch, but it
doesn't work.

I was wondering if anyone knows of a dialer that is stand alone (does
not rely on DUN) that might run via Wine in Redhat. I just tried one
(WinDialer, nice!) and it was pages of errors in my version of Wine.
I'm getting a new version of Wine now, but at 35 megs it'll be
tommorow before I see it <G>. I thought I'd put this out and see if
anyone has any ideas while it's downloading to utilize the @#@#$$ win
modem via Wine.

Try here: http://linmodems.org/

They might be able to help.

Lucent AMR chipsets are not supported but Lucent/Agere chipsets are.

 

[dkg_ctc]

I don't think that this is going to fly, but I might be surprised.

I have a Lucent Winmodem. It works fine, so I don't want to buy
another hardware controlled modem unless I must.

I want to be able to connect in Redhat 7.3. I found a patch, but
it doesn't work.

I was wondering if anyone knows of a dialer that is stand alone
(does not rely on DUN) that might run via Wine in Redhat.

I think you'd be hardpressed to find one, because first you'd have
to install the drivers for the modem in Wine, and I'm not sure how
easy that would be to achieve, or how well Wine would play with the
drivers once installed.

I just tried one (WinDialer, nice!) and it was pages of errors in
my version of Wine. I'm getting a new version of Wine now, but at
35 megs it'll be tommorow before I see it <G>. I thought I'd put
this out and see if anyone has any ideas while it's downloading to
utilize the @#@#$$ win modem via Wine.

Your best bet would probably be trying the pre-compiled HCF drivers
for Redhat. Unfortunately, the drivers have become crippleware, but
there are old versions floating around which may work. I wasn't able
to find any, but if you really want to stick with Linux, the filenames
started with something along the lines of along the lines of

hcfpcimodem-0.99lnx

HTH.

 

[REMbranded]

Try here: http://linmodems.org/

They might be able to help.

Lucent AMR chipsets are not supported but Lucent/Agere chipsets are.

Thanks. I checked there awhile back and apparently I have the
unsupported chipset.

The soft modems are dirt cheap, but the hardware controlled modems are
pretty steep. The last USR (soft) I bought dumped a bunch of adware on
my drive in installing the driver. I'm not looking forward to pay for
that nonsense again. Do you have any recommendations for hardware
controlled modems?

 

[REMbranded]

I think you'd be hardpressed to find one, because first you'd have
to install the drivers for the modem in Wine, and I'm not sure how
easy that would be to achieve, or how well Wine would play with the
drivers once installed.

I think that you are right. Unless the stand alone dialer loads the
driver (permanently) in Windows and carries it via Wine, I don't think
this will fly. That is, the program still accesses the driver files on
the vfat partition as it is executed.

Your best bet would probably be trying the pre-compiled HCF drivers
for Redhat. Unfortunately, the drivers have become crippleware, but
there are old versions floating around which may work. I wasn't able
to find any, but if you really want to stick with Linux, the filenames
started with something along the lines of along the lines of

hcfpcimodem-0.99lnx

I'll sure give a good look.

I'm pretty sure it is a legal/proprietary problem for the particular
chipset. I'll see what I can turn up for the above.

 

[Richard Steven Hack]

Thanks. I checked there awhile back and apparently I have the
unsupported chipset.

The soft modems are dirt cheap, but the hardware controlled modems are
pretty steep. The last USR (soft) I bought dumped a bunch of adware on
my drive in installing the driver. I'm not looking forward to pay for
that nonsense again. Do you have any recommendations for hardware
controlled modems?

Anything which is hardware controlled will work. Pick the cheapest.