If the modem has jumpers on it, then you're golden. Just "cat
/proc/interrupts" and pick an empty IRQ to set it to. "cat
/proc/ioports" will give you a list of used ioports, and you can use
that to set up jumpers too.
To see if the card is recognized and what IRQ it is set on in hardware,
do "cat /proc/pci" and look for something that says it belongs to a
modem or comm port. It should tell you the IRQ ( a number between 1 and
15) and possibly a list of ioports. Use the first ioport (something
like 0x0800 or 0x340)
After that, try the setserial command "setserial -v /dev/ttySx" where x
is 0,1,2, or 3. This will tell you what settings the software is
looking for. You can change this by using the values from /proc/pci by
saying "setserial /dev/ttySx -v irq N1 port N2 uart 16550A" where x is a
number from 0 to 3, N1 is the IRQ and N2 is the ioport. Feel free to
experiment, because you can't harm anything with this, except for making
it not work, but that's why we're doing this in the first place. Also
try different /dev/ttyS?'s to find one that is right (odds are it's
ttyS0). If you set the irq at 9 and setserial says that it is set at 2,
don't panic. There's a reason for this, you just have to know for now
that IRQ 9 is the same as IRQ 2.
Fire up kppp and try querying the modem after you use setserial. If it
works, you will know it.
If you get a working setserial command, just add it to the very end of
/etc/rc.d/rc.local and it will be executed after you boot the machine.
Failing that, you can always bring it by on a Thursday and I will fix it
in about 10 minutes.
--Mike
not telling wrote:
> i just got a new modem from VOS today, its a PCI U.S.
> Robitics 56k Performance Pro Modem. on the box it says
> that it works with DOS, WINDOWS, and Linux. I put it
> in with the new Sound Blaster 16 that i bought with it
> and Mandrake 7.1 found the sound blaster and installed
> all the right drivers but it didn't see the modem so i
> went to http://www.linuxnewbie.org and followed their
> "setting up a internet connection with KPPP" tutorial
> that didn't work i followed the entire tutorial and in
> kppp in configuration under the modem tab i querey'd
> my modem and it says "sorry, The modem is busy" and i
> think i heard somewhere that that means that its a
> Winmodem..Please help.
>
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