This morning I tried to install Debian on a system with one of these modems and was unsuccessful in creating a PPP connection. The BIOS initializes the modem to IRQ 9, and Win95 says it's on COM2. So I used /dev/ttyS1 as the device name and used setserial to change the IRQ to 9, but still no success. pon fails with the message tcgetattr: Input/Output error(5) Since I have successfully set up PPP on another machine using the same ISP, I am fairly sure that the config files are correct.
I know this question was discussed recently, but a search of the archives gave me conflicting opinions on this subject. At least one person suggests that it isn't useable at all, while another suggests using setserial to avoid an irq conflict; another place suggested to specify the UART. Does anyone have a definitive answer as to whether or not these are usable with Linux, and if so, what needs to be done to convince them to work? If you need any more information about the system or config files just ask for them. Thanks a lot for the help. James Dietrich
