A colleague and I are playing around with a laptop that has had linux (redhat/refora, IIRC) installed on it. It has a winmodem in it - using the scanModem script we found on the net, it is identified, and a site and .rpm is listed.

What we're not clear on is how you go about using a modem under linux (I've always run it standalone or network/wireless, where the hardware was detected). So I have no clue about how to "install" the drivers, or the correct procedure to go through to sort out the dialup...

Anyone got any suggestions? We'd stick XP on it, but it has a floppy drive only, with a spare HP USB CDROM hanging off the back. Which has no DOS drivers that we can see... so we can't install windoze right now...

Help? :confused:

If there's an .rpm package for the modem driver, just download it and install using Red Hat's package management tool (rpm?). It will ask you any necessary configuration questions during the install.

If you want to use the modem for dial-up internet access, you will also need the "ppp" (point-to-point protocol) package - it might be already installed; if so it will just need configuring. Debian Linux has a PPP config tool called (not surprisingly) "pppconfig", which makes the task a lot easier - Reh Hat probably has the same or something similar.