On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 17:55 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > My wife is currently visiting her family in Mauritius, and has taken her laptop > along with her. Her laptop runs Fedora 8 and I have set up network manager on > it so it will automatically grab any available Internet connection without any > further action required on her part. This works fine here, both with a > wireless and a wired connection. Switch on, blammo! Connection established, > done deal. > > However, she advises me that the connection at her mother's house uses a Sagem > Fast 800 E3 modem that has only a usb connection, and when she plugs it into a > usb port on her laptop nothing happens. (On the actual modem, the word Fast is > written as F@st.) > > A bit of Google searching tells me that this modem is based on the Eagle > chipset (whatever that is) and that there are apparently Linux drivers available > for this thing, somewhere. Making things more interesting, it appears that > this Sagem is a French outfit, and most of the documentation that I can find is > written in French. > > So.... > > Is there an easy way to make this modem work with Fedora 8? My wife is by no > means a "techie"; she just uses whatever software I provide for her, and there > is no way in the world that she will be able to compile a kernel module on her > own, or anything like that. > > "yum search sagem" gives me no results, and "yum search eagle" gives me nothing > relevant. I'm pretty sure I could call her on the phone and talk her through a > "yum install whatever" and reboot, but I have no idea what I should tell her to > install. > > I hate to have to tell her that she hauled her laptop all the way from here to > Mauritius for nothing, but I'm starting to think that's the situation. > > Any suggestions are welcome. ---- she needs a hub and 2 network cables or 1 cross-over network cable and set up the Windows system to do Internet sharing...it's built into Windows XP and newer. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
