From: "tony" <cllin@earthlink.net>
Subject: Maybe you will be interested
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 04:00:22 -0800

Recently I spent quite some time on my
Satellite 4090 Laptop running Redhat Linux6.2. Now the Winmodem is working
perfectly. I would like to share my experience with the LINUX people using
same Laptop or similar (Like 4100,2590 etc).

1) download a winmodem driver from http://www.linmodems.org/linux568.zip
and install it in my redhat 6.2 system (refer to README of the package).
What it does is to create a new /dev/ttyS14 and link it to /dev/modem.

2). To make setup easier, I download the ppp.tar.gz
package(ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/slackware/slakware/n4/ppp.tgz) from
Slackware, and install it to Redhat system. The reason is that Slackware has
a very nice script program called pppsetup, which does every thing based on
the data input like DNS sever address, login name and passwd, etc.   Before
execute pppsetup, I mkdir /var/tmp, as needed by pppsetup). Follow the
prompt and type in the networking information.

3)After using the pppsetup script to setup the PPP, you have to cd
/etc/ppp/, vi options, change the the /dev/ttyS1(com2 under Dos) to
/dev/ttyS14, which is what the  lucent setup program link to /dev/modem.
That is very important.

4) type in ppp-go, it should dial the phone line and hook up to the server.

5) to disconnect, type ppp-off.