I have a Pentium 4 PC with both Red Hat Linux 7 and Windows XP. Linux does not recognize my external modem, a Nortel Networks RSS Data Adapter. How can I connect through Windows?
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I have not been able to find any information on the RSS Data Adapter. So I will give you a ballpark guess on a way to at least get the Windows side of things to connect to the Internet. You may be able to map a modem under the product, Win4Lin and then map a COM port for your modem to the virtual Windows session. Then you could use the manufacturer-supplied drivers while running Linux, but that won't allow the Linux networking stack to access the network over your Nortel device. I am sure they will give you a demo if you tell them I sent you.
To solve your problem for Linux, I would make a couple of suggestions:
- Update your Linux distribution. I notice that you are using Red Hat 7.0, which lacks hardware support for your modem. However, there have been a number of major releases since that time with improvements to the hardware support.
- Check the following databases for hardware support for Linux entering your device.
- Linux Hardware Database
- Mandrake Linux Hardware
- Red Hat Linux Compatibility Database
- SuSE Linux Hardware Database
If these databases don't yield any results and you really want to use Linux and connect through your data adapter, then I suggest using these resources to help you decide on what model you may want to acquire.
- Finally, you could use Knoppix to try to detect your modem by booting from the CD-ROM and then have Knoppix hardware detection take a crack at discovering your modem. The Knoppix 3.7 disk is a free download and will probably have as modern a hardware detection database as any Linux distribution.
This was first published in December 2004
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