Bingo.....that did it Tom. Thanks :-)
The autoconfig did not work but the second thing you suggested worked fine
--Dave
At 06:19 PM 4/3/00, Tom Berkley wrote:
>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.)
> > > > >
