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>
> Thanks Charles,
>
> For all of your help trying to figure this out with me. I do not think I
> have a winmodem though, it is a 'Creative Modem Sound Blaster Flash56 PCI
> DI5630' modem. With an IRQ:10 and I/O:03E8h-03EFh according to my 'windows
> system resource report', and from my receipt of purchase.
>
> I have asked since I first installed and have not yet heard any ideas as to
> if it would be a 'good idea' for me to reinstall? As during my installation
> I set the modem to the wrong com port? I think I see where my modem is and
> Linux is recoginzing it, just not as what it is 'a modem', it appears from
> my windows system resource report that my modem has an IRQ;10, also when I
> ran
>
> cat /proc/pci
>
> that (device 11) as per below, has an IRQ:10 also, which leads me to
> believe that it (device 11) is in fact my modem and Linux sees it but it is
> not properly defined. How to redefine it, of this I am not sure if it is
> best to re-install or if I can manually set the proper configurations for
> it from within Linux so that it has the proper settings to function?
That odd IRQ could indeed explain alot of your problems in attempting to
communicate with your modem. Linux defaults the serial port IRQs to the
"typical" IRQ for that port (ie, IRQs 3 and 4). You need to explicitly
tell Linux that your serial port is at another IRQ by using:
setserial /dev/ttyS<X> irq <Y>
where you replace <X> with the serial port you're configuring (COM port
- 1 (COM1=ttyS0)) and <Y> with the IRQ number.
> Also if re-installing is the appropriate method, are there any pointers
> that anyone could give prior to doing so? I get the feeling that you are
> and have been right on target with your ideas regarding my modem, and as a
> result I think you have at least helped me to locate it from within Linux.
Reinstallation is NOT going to solve your problem. You'll have spent
another hour waiting for the new software to install and you'll be in
exactly the same place you're in now. Sound productive? Didn't think
so.
> Thanks again to everyone,
>
> b/web
> Wade
>
> I thought winmodems were software modems and not hardware modems, something
> like a 'unimodem', do I have to purchase a new modem? I also see in looking
> through the files at Creative for my model 'PCI DI5630' that my modem is
> supported by Win 95/98 and Win NT, and that it has a Data Interface: PCI
> bus, and a Host Interface: PCI bus, with a system requirement of Pentium
> 100 or higher and a 'PCI slot'?
Winmodems are defined by the lack of a $.50 part on the board that
supplies a "real" serial port to the operating system. Instead, the
emulate the hardware in software and drive the thing that way. All in
all, it's a nice way for Intel to get people to buy new chips.
You're getting confused by Windows terminology though... "Unimodem" is
simply a generic modem driver used under Windows when a modem-specific
driver isn't necessary. My Zoom 56k modem uses unidriver, but it is not
a Winmodem.
--
Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
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