[ale] kppp- Zoom didn't work

[William Bagwell]

On Friday 05 October 2007, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 October 2007 16:48, William Bagwell wrote:

> > External or if the box in question has a legacy ISA slot, those old
> > suckers still work great. Used to could find 56Ks at shows for about
> > $5.

> well my Uncle got a Zoom modem 3095 model, and it even came with a linux
> folder on the CD. It didn't work, the directions were trash. 

Yikes, did not know there were external (dial up) modems like that beastie.
http://www.zoom.com/products/dial_up_external_usb.html

> Very 
> frustrating to work over the phone with someone who has no idea what a
> command line is, and the directions tell you to copy the appropriate
> folder
> ( .deb, .rpm, .tar) to your computer, and then go to that driver folder.
> after an hour we gave up and he will reinstall XP. He called Zoom
> technical support, got some Indian that he couldn't understand who
> didn't know anything about linux drivers.
> the install doc says :
> type sudo
> type dpkg -i dgcmodem_i386.deb
>
> typing sudo by itself doesn't do anything.
> we tried sudo dpkg and just dpkg and he kept getting some strange errors
> about bash: ls deb not found or something like that. I give up.

I remember my frustration about five years ago trying to get a US Robotics 
internal PCI modem (sorry don't remember the modal) that plainly stated on 
the box that it worked with Linux. Gave up after several days and returned 
it...

Sorry for the slightly misleading advice!
-- 
William