How to get a dial-up 'net connect with Linux on a laptop?

[Eric "Shubes"]

Josef Lowder wrote:
> 
> The HP laptop that I purchased has the following: 
> - Athlon 64 processor, 512 meg ram, 60-gig hd 
> - Broadcom 802.11b/g Wlan 

Regarding the wireless, there are no native Linux drivers available for 
Broadcom wireless chipsets, primarily because Broadcom won't (hasn't) 
released the specs. You can, however, get it working using the 
NdisWrapper(1) package along with the Windoze drivers supplied for it. I 
believe that others on this list have gotten this to work. Anyone?

> - Internal modem AC97 Data Fax Soft Modem with Smart CP 
> 	on PCI bus0, device 20, function 6 

I'm guessing here, but "Soft" may refer to software, aka Winmodem. If 
that's the case, these drivers are OS *and* CPU specific, due to the 
fact that they have no DSP (digital sound processor) chip of their own, 
and offload that functionality to the main CPU. I suspect that NDIS may 
work with these too, but you should check to be sure.

Otherwise, I believe that the suggestion to get Linux-capable PC cards 
would be a viable option, providing that it's within budget.

(1) http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/
-- 
-Eric 'shubes'
"There is no such thing as the People;
  it is a collectivist myth.
  There are only individual citizens
  with individual wills
  and individual purposes."
-William E. Simon (1927-2000),
     Secretary of the Treasury (1974-1977)
  "A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237

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