Hello everyone, This is a repetiton of what I posted to comp.os.linux.(setup,hardware) today. Any pointers are greatly appreciated.
I have a Debian Woody running on an IBM Thinkpad R31. The software setup is basicly the "stable" distribution with 2.4.18bf2.4 kernel + the XFree86 4.2.1 from the "testing". The XFree86 4.2.1 comes with KDE 2.2.2 and GNOME (gnomecc has version 1.4.0.5). The modem of the Thinkpad is some AMR (Lucent, I guess) based, non-supported winmodem, so I ripped off a USB modem from an HP Brio (st7554 based, HP UM9800-W). Actually this is also a winmodem, but Smartlink provides some (partially open) drivers on their site, and I got the modem to work w/o any problems. The modem works perfectly in console mode (no X), and with KDE. However, whenever I try to run it within the GNOME environment, I get "fifo underrun" errors that repeat some thousand times and cannot even get connected.The modem dials the number fine, but afterwards things get messed up. Many thanks in advance, -arifi
