On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 04:04:34PM -0500, Joanne Hunter wrote: > > I have the Linksys Ethernet + modem PCMCIA card (PCMLM56) and can't > > get the modem to work (the Ethernet worked right after potato > > install). The system is Toshiba 2545 XCDT. > > I hate to have to tell you this, but... > The modem in that card is a Lucent winmodem. There's a driver for it > (look on www.linmodems.org)
That's really a surprise for me! As you can guess, I bought the combo to bypass the internal Winmodem in the Toshiba. The Linksys card was and still is advertised as Linux-compatible, driven by serial_cs (see the bottom of the Linux tech support page, http://www.linksys.com/support/support.asp?spid=26) and even the current Linux/Modem database (http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/20001116a.html) gives it an OK, rather than WM rating, which I took as "true modem". I can try installing the Lucent winmodem driver but I hate to think that either Linksys has changed the chip in mid-production or there is some really deceiving advertising going on. Thanks very much, Petr
