[Bug 42454] Winmodems - others work

[tqft]

Puppy linux has a really great wizard for detecting modems - winmodems
in particular.

http://www.puppyos.com/
Specifically Puppy Unleashed is a reference to the source and directions for building a complete system.

All the source etc is available so if you need ideas about getting these
nasty things to work.

The 2 main problems people (eg me) have had are - winmodem chipset
detection and port detection.

Using a Thinkpad R60 - winmodem on a pcmia card.  Knoppix  3.7 & 3.9
would give me grief - why I don't know.  Puppy 2.14 (latest release) and
earlier were pretty good about using it.

Hope this helps

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Documentation should include greater detail about setting up difficult network hardware
https://launchpad.net/bugs/42454