Re: Alvin, Canada, Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 kernel 2.4.27-1-386

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Alvin

As Marvin said, upgrading to a recent 2.6 kernel would be a good idea. Debian 
4.0 (aka "Etch") was released a few days ago :

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/releasenotes

Firas

On Tuesday 17 April 2007 02:21:37 Marvin Stodolsky wrote:
> Alvin
>
> For your CPU=i686,  Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Linux version 2.4.27-1-386
>
> My guess is that
> Class 0780: 14d5:0002 Communication controller: Nitsuko Corporation:
> is a flash chip reader, through I'm not sure.  Have you run:
> $ su - root
> #  wvdialconf    /etc/wvdial.conf
> which would report if it is a Controller chipset modem
>
> Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller
> Audio can host a modem card.  The failure of scanModem to acquire further
> diagnostic information hints that the modem has a Conexant chip. if a modem
> is therein.
>
> Most broadly I would suggest upgrading to some 2.6.n kernel, perhaps
> the Ubuntu Edgy release for much better hardware support general.
>
> But you could install packages for: gcc-3.3 make
> kernel-headers-2.4.27-1-386
>
> Them from From
> http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hsf/full/downloads.php#generic you could
> get the hsfmodem_7.60.00.04full_i386.deb.zip   unpack with: $ unzip
> hsf*.zip
> Try the install with:
> $ su  - root
> #  dpkg -i  hsf*.deb
> The concurrent diagnostics will relate whether a Conexant modem is
> resident.
>
> MarvS
> scanModem manitainer
>
> On 4/15/07, Alvin Alami <alvin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Alvin



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