Ibook Modem Support.

[Greg Hamilton]

To summarise a recent discussion on this list:

Later iBooks have a soft-modem requiring a driver, but your iBook 500 
should have a regular modem. Mine does. The modem device is /dev/ttyS0. 
Configure Minicom to use this device, then try sending a few ATI 
commands.

A soft modem will return something like this:
ATI3
hcfsbmodem-0.98msibrta02090200ppc

ATI4
Conexant HCF Cadmus2 56K Faxmodem USB

A hard modem should return this:
ATI3
V2.400F5-V90_2M_DLS

ATI4
Apple Internal Modem

If you have a hard modem you don't need to install anything special. I 
use the KDE dialer KPPP to connect to my ISP using my iBook's internal 
modem. Be sure to send an ATM0 command to the modem before dialing to 
disable the speaker or it won't work.

Greg

On 24/02/2004, at 3:00 AM, Donald L. Gover wrote:

> I have managed to get at a really good price a Ibook 500MHZ machine 
> that I
> now have YDL 3.01 running nicely on. I have built the 2.4.25 kernel and
> everything was going fine till I tried to search for the modem. After 
> some
> poking around on the YDL howto site I found a howto to make the modem
> work. Part of that howto is to download from a third party site a 
> driver
> that you build into your kernel for the softmodem support. It however
> fails to compile. Has anyone managed to make the Internal Modem on the
> Ibook work with YDL?
>
>    Donald L Gover.
>
>
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