I have a Supra ISA Diamond Express 56K internal modem. It is PNP. It never
just "worked" in Redhat nor MD6 or 6.1.
I kept getting an eight byte overlap conflict with me soundcard. The only
way I got it to work was to remove both the soundcard and modem, boot up
Linux and then shutdown Linux. Install the soundcard, boot, and shutdown
(Soundcard worked at this point).
configure the modem (yes, it has jumpers on it) for a forced IRQ, think I
used com 2.Installed the modem and booted up MD, and all was fine then, and
has been since. I just make sure that I keep a copy of isapnp config file on
floppy to ease re-installations
Brian D. Klar - CVE
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ramon Gandia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000 12:16 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] 336 Supra Express
D HOPP wrote:
>
> I have an ISA Diamon Supra Express 336 PNP Voice modem.
They do not have such a model. They have models like
Supra Express 336i V+ and so on. You have to be a bit
careful. Supras come in both WinModems and Non-Win. However,
looking at all the variants of the 336's did not show any of
them to be WinModems. However, some could be RPI's which are
just as bad.
> I',m running
> Mandrake 7.0 and trying to get this modem to work (I didn't get it working
> under 6.1 either). This isn't a winmodem (to my knowledge) but Lothar
> doesn't detect it (I know it's in beta). I'm wondering how I can get this
> working if Lothar doesn't think it's there.
>
> Thanks,
> Dennis
Most, if not all Diamond Supra modems are PnP. Often when you
exit windows or reset the computer, the PnP settings are set back
to default mode. this may be non-functional in your computer.
Most Diamonds do NOT have Jumpers. This makes them tough to set
up. There is such a thing as PnPTools, but I have never gotten
the thing to work for me. Sometimes you can do this:
fire up the computer in Windows95 and take a look at the modem
settings in Control Panel, System, Device Manager. IN particular
look at the resources, such as the IO Port and the IRQ it uses.
>From there you can determine if that is a normal port, and which
one (cua0, cua1 etc). YOu can then plug those settings into Linux
and see if the modem shows up.
ISA PnP was a kludge that never worked well, even for Windows. I
have serveral modems in here that are ISA PnP and my computer
would never pick up from Windows 95. Usually because there was
a serial port or other already on the computer that was "blocking"
the modem, so PnP would not alert Win95. Ergo, no modem
recognized.
My feeling is that you will get this thing working, but you may be
in for a rough road for a bit.
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