Fire up kppp and click the setup option then select modem tab followed
by the modem query. As long as the Xircom modem is not a winmodem (don't
think it is) then you should get a successful test. You may have to
configure the serial port id (/dev/ttyS1 probably since your internal
serial port is ttyS0). If the modem is busy then exit kppp and use
setserial:
/sbin/setserial /dev/ttyS1 auto_irq skip_test autoconfig
if the modem is still busy when you try again then you have to convince
it with a little prodding:
/sbin/serserial /dev/ttyS1 irq 6 <- some unused irq which one not
important
/sbin/setserial /dev/ttyS1 irq 3 <-- ttyS0 wants to use irq 4 and S2
wants irq 3
this is what I had to do to get my 3Com pcmcia modem to work in my dell
i7k.
Tom
Dave Brown wrote:
>
> The NIC section of the RealPort card is working fine...it talks at 100Mb
> with the rest of my LAN and even surfs thru the ICS gateway just fine.
> The Modem is a different story, as far as I could can tell it's setup
> properly(but I'll be honest and say I have never had to setup a modem under
> linux before, has been all network based....usually servers) but whenever I
> try to dial out with kppp it says the modem is busy. I have not spent a
> huge amount of time on it, since it gets out to the net thru the DSL line.
> --Dave
>
> At 07:55 PM 4/2/00, Tom Berkley wrote:
> >Dave
> >
> >What's the problem with your NIC/Modem?
> >
> >Tom
> >
> >
> >Dave Brown wrote:
> > >
> > > My Inspiron 7000 is currently dualbooting Win98SE and Mandrake 7.0.2 quite
> > > nicely. The only problem i am having is getting the Xircom Realport
> > > NIC/Modem working properly. NIC is fine but the modem is not cooperating.
> > > --Dave
> > >
> > > Brian T. Schellenberger typethed the following...
> > >
> > > >Just a quick note . . .
> > > >
> > > >The newer, higher-end Inspirons (7500) are among those on which Dell
> > > >*does* offer Linux shipped, and on which Linux works quite well.
> > > >(That's what I'm using right now, in fact.)
> > > >
