Video problem down, modem to go!

[DNAgene]

Hello everyone,
First of all I'd like to say that this is seems like a very nice community and helped me in my decision to go with fedora. Here's what I have:

Well this is the first distro to give me these sort of problems, even compared to old redhat 8 and redhat 9. Hardware support and detection seems to be going downhill. first I had the problem that fedora does not detect and configure multiple heads when installing , and a X -configure afterwards gives a messy and mouseless config (does not work either), so I had to manually configure xorg.conf, problem solved. Now my modem, I have a Diamond Supra 56K hardware modem, has worked on every distro I have tried : Mandrake, Slackware, redhat , debian. I can see that my modem is identified somwhere , I saw when the machine is booting or when i was installing, I can't recall. I tried every device listed in kppp and network-config, nothing. Does anybody know what my problem is? mind that I am very new to Linux. Also is there a way to use kppp without it asking me for root everytime?

also I can help notice but my pc has been running rather slow, slower then I can ever remember.

cheers

[jazzer]

You can get kppp to run without prompting for a password by:

rm /usr/bin/kppp
ln -s /usr/sbin/kppp /usr/bin/kppp
chmod 4755 /sbin/kppp

That should be all the you need to..

Far as the modem goes, log in as root and look at the file "/root/hwconf" (this is created during install, listing all of your devices). Scroll down through the file until you find class:MODEM and it will list the device there, ie mine says ttyS4 meaning /dev/ttyS4. Hopefully, that should solve your problems.

[mictubis]

I'm having a similar problem, but my modem is not listed in hwconf. It does show up in as being found by isapnp in my dmesg and ttyS0/ttyS1 are showing up as active serial ports. Trying either port fails with an error 8 (the chat script is failing.)

Is there anyway to diagnose the problem further than 'well, it just doesn't work?' I have been using this modem since RedHat 5.1 and have never had a problem with it working before. I am liking FC2 too much to downgrade. :)

[ezeze5000]

Every time I install any version of Fedora Core I have to
Show where the modem is located it just can't seem to find it.

Once I show where it is it works just fine.

[DNAgene]

My modem is also listed in dmesg but not in hwconf. And to top all this... now for the first time ever with a linux distro, my sound card is not working, all I get is a loud hiss. It's detecting it correctly but it doesn't work. I'm wasting too much time with this, i'm going to try Mandrake. Red Hat 8 never gave me all this, this isn't a good sign.