modem installation

After a flawless installation of Mandrake 9.2, I can't get a single modem to
work.
I have a supra (express) 56 K internal on a pentium III. I found a driver
for it but I'm not sure what to do with it.

A note says:
"This is meant to be run as ROOT to initialize the modem when the
configuration has gotten FUBAR. This sets some very aggressive compression &
speed characteristics and may or may not work with your ISP. Uncompress the
file with bzip2 and LOOK AT IT FIRST with your favorite text editor. It is a
dirt-simple BASH script. "

How can I get it to run automatically upon startup?
What's FUBAR?

Any help would be appreciated.

Kind regards

JLH

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Jean-Luc Herin <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> After a flawless installation of Mandrake 9.2, I can't get a single modem to
> work.
> I have a supra (express) 56 K internal on a pentium III. I found a driver
> for it but I'm not sure what to do with it.

If it needs a driver, then it is not a modem. It's a winmodem (which is
not a modem). In particular, it is not an internal modem.

> A note says:
> "This is meant to be run as ROOT to initialize the modem when the
> configuration has gotten FUBAR. This sets some very aggressive compression &
> speed characteristics and may or may not work with your ISP. Uncompress the
> file with bzip2 and LOOK AT IT FIRST with your favorite text editor. It is a
> dirt-simple BASH script. "

OK - do that. But obviously it is not a driver. It simply expects to
set some parameters on a working modem in order to get more speed.

> How can I get it to run automatically upon startup?

Why would you want to? And do as the instructions say and read the
script. It probably just echos a few AT commands to a modem.

> What's FUBAR?

Check your dictionary. WW2 slang for "completely messed up".
See also computing glossaries.

> Any help would be appreciated.

Dictionaries come on your distro.

% dict fubar
2 definitions found

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (07Oct99) [foldoc]:

FUBAR

1. (WWII military slang) Fucked up beyond all
recognition (or repair).

See {foobar}.

2. <hardware> The Failed UniBus Address Register in a
{VAX}. A good example of how jargon can occasionally be snuck
past the {suit}s.

....

Anyway, you do not want the script that you have.

Peter

"Jean-Luc Herin" wrote
> After a flawless installation of Mandrake 9.2, I can't get a single modem
to
> work.
> I have a supra (express) 56 K internal on a pentium III. I found a driver
> for it but I'm not sure what to do with it.
>
> A note says:
> "This is meant to be run as ROOT to initialize the modem when the
> configuration has gotten FUBAR. This sets some very aggressive compression
&
> speed characteristics and may or may not work with your ISP. Uncompress
the
> file with bzip2 and LOOK AT IT FIRST with your favorite text editor. It is
a
> dirt-simple BASH script. "
>
> How can I get it to run automatically upon startup?
> What's FUBAR?
FUBAR is a WWII armed forces acronym;
"F'd Up Beyond All Reason",
meaning egregiously mishandled, uncontrolled or maladjusted.
Foo is often used as a variable name, and is derived from the FU
of FUbar, I seem to recall.
If it is a bash script then it isn't properly speaking a 'driver,' but a
mere general adjustment recipe to configure the emulated serial
port in linux, or to configure the modem or to bring it to known
state of readiness.
Have you tried using minicom, {or cu from the uucp
software package} to send some AT commands
to the modem from a root login to see if it responds at all?
Does it give reply to AT commands from a dos floppy boot
and dos-version procomm plus, or 'more details' of windows
9x MODEM applet {of control panel} diagnostics?
If you have an unused serial port and an external modem, it
would be lucky to practice on it for comparison.