[TriLUG] ___ at mindspring.com____

al johson alfjon at mindspring.com
Sun Oct 28 00:43:57 EDT 2001


The brand is "SmartLink" and the model # is 5634PCV SurfRider.The box says
it supports DOS, Windows and Linux. I figure since it works with DOS that
the probability is high that it is not a Winmodem!!
----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Bryan <tbryan at python.net>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 7:56 AM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] ___ at mindspring.com____


> On Sunday 28 October 2001 01:29 am, you wrote:
>
> > modem. I have a new PCI modem which says on the box that it does work
with
> > LINUX.
>
> What modem (brand/model)?
>
> > There is some sort of file necessary, apparently, but it has an .EXE
> > extension??? Now I've never seen an extension on any driver file nor
have I
> > seen an exe extention on a Linux file.
>
> Copy it onto your Linux box and see what sort of file it is.  Some
examples,
>
> $ file /bin/ls
> /bin/ls: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1, dynamically
> linked (uses shared libs), stripped
>
> $ file /usr/sbin/netcfg
> /usr/sbin/netcfg: Bourne shell script text executable
>
> $ file /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/idle/idle.py
> /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/idle/idle.py: a python script text
executable
>
> $ file .Xmodmap
> .Xmodmap: ASCII text
>
> $ file /usr/local/Photos/dcp_0303.jpg
> /usr/local/Photos/dcp_0303.jpg: JPEG image data
>
> $ file mv90_DT031264.dat
> mv90_DT031264.dat: data
>
> The "data" designator is used for files that are of an unrecognized type.
In
> this case, it's a packed binary file of interval electric meter data.
>
> ---Tom
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