Have you checked the BIOS setup for the serial ports? Maybe, it'd be a
simple BIOS configuration trouble.
my bios only configures one serial port..
but my modem is built-in.. so i need to create a new serial port?(and not
use ttyS0 ? apart from that, the IRQ of my modem is set to 0.
how can i change that? setpci doesn't seem to change a lot..
i read, that i could tell my bios that i don't use a PnP OS, and then it
will configure all serial devices. is that correct? but, i didn't find any
way to tell that to my BIOS..
should i do a bios update? and if so, how?
Also, check for interrupts conflicts;
i should be allowed to use the same IRQs, right? in /proc/interrupts, no
interrupts for my modem are shown..somehow my laptop doesn't seem to know,
that modem exists.
ok, apart from that:
is there a way to maybe repartition the hard-disk and install windows,
without losing all my data? then i could have a look on how that modem
works there, or if it works at all.and,windows, or at least a windows
partition would come in handy, since wine doesn't seem to be able to handle
some programs on cds that only work with windows , (which i would still
like to use).
ok, and because i don't want to write a new e-mail for every one of the
thousand other questions i still have:
i think, i've seen the dot-clock thingy of my video-card. but to know,
which resolution and frequency i can use, i still need to know the maximum
horizontal frequency of my screen, don't i?
all i know is, that it's a TFT XGA Color Display.
my laptop is a Medion MD 9783
any body there, who has the same?
and, which driver could i use for my graphics card, so hardware
accelaration will be enabled? my kernel version is 2.4.18, and there are
only drivers for xfree 4.1, but i use 4.2, so everything works fine, but
some xmms plugins are way too slow. i could probably find this somewhere in
the net too, so don't bother too much, but if anybody happens to know, i'd
be very happy, if you shared that with me.
i have a ATI Radeon Mobility M6 LY
thanks for your help
gaia
Sounds like you might have a winmodem. First checkout this site:
http://www.linmodems.org/
Follow the links to the 'scanmodem' tool and then download it and execute it
to identify your chipset. (FYI: I have not used this, but I understand it
works). Once you have identified the chipset, follow the links to the
appropriate project.
If all else fails, check out this site:
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html
You can download GNU Parted and use it to repartition your disk. You need
to download a BOOT disk image and ROOT disk image and 'dd' them to two
formated floppies. Just read the manual, it is pretty easy to use.
Incidentally, if you have a Toshiba laptop (which is what I have), or you
know that your modem uses the Lucent LT chipset, you can start of by trying
this site:
http://www.sfu.ca/~cth/ltmodem/index.html
You can follow the link for the Debian binary package and install it with
dpkg. This works great on my machine, and I have tried it first under
RedHat (yuck!) and Debian when I made the switch over. In both cases it
worked as advertised.
-Roberto Sanchez
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