Am Tue, 03 July 2001 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > can anyone help me configure a: > > "KYE/Genius SpeedSurfer PCI ISDN Card" > > Mandrake 8.0 found it (HiSax or something?),
If you read the isdnutils (also called isdn4linux, for reasons I have yet to work out) docs you will see that the HiSax driver does lots of isdn cards, the same docs will also tell you whether yours is one of them. > but i dont understand how to configure it under debian, or how it is used. Or > about the entire topic of ISDN under linux. There are two ways to use it - to automatically dial when your computer/network attempts to access somewhere 'outside', and to require you to explicitly instruct it to dial/hangup. In the beginning it is far better to set it up to do the latter (the default config is the former) as it saves extra connections being made which you probably don't know anything about until you either a) check the logs, or b) get the bill. The config that Debian/isdnutils does for you gets you very nearly there, there's not that much to do. Enter your own number in the appropriate places, and the number you want to dial to in the other, and to start with probably change the auto dial option to off (sorry, I don't remember the exact one or which file it is in, but the friendly man page is waiting to be read :-). There might be some other stuff I've forgotten, in which case feel free to ask again when it doesn't work (caveat: I'm by no means an expert). I think there are two, maybe three config files you need to be interested in, all in /etc/isdn or something like it (sorry for being so vague, I can't check at the moment). > If someone could show me how to get ISDN working, that would be a great help. > As the places i find on the net tell me different stories, and just give me a > head ache. *laughs* Yup, been there, done that, got the bare spots on my scalp to prove it! The newsgroup is a pretty good place to ask (the name's in the docs somewhere). Don't be put off by the fact that most people there are posting in German if you don't speak the language, they're quite happy to help in English too. Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com Linux FREE Mail is 100% FREE, 100% Linux, and 100% yours!
