On Tuesday 02 October 2001 08:23 pm, Michael McLay wrote:
> I bought a U.S. Robotics 56K FaxModem model 5610. It uses the PCI bus, but
> it is not a WinModem. The modem works fine with Redhat 7.1, but when I
> installed Mandrake 8.1 the HardDrake software detected the modem at
> configuration time and exited because it claimed the modem was a WinModem.
> I found a brief reference in a ChangeLog that stated that all PCI modems
> are WinModems. This is not true. The PCI card I bought has an onboard
> processor and it works just fine with RedHat. The HardDrake detection
> software is broken. I've submited a bug report.
>
> Unfortunately registering the bug doesn't solve my immediate problem. I
> have to boot to Redhat to connect to the Internet to read mail. I'd like
> to fix Mandrake 8.1 so I can do so without a reboot. Anyone have a
> suggestion on a command that I can use to configure the modem to work?
Well, I've have that very modem (Bus 2, device 12, function 0:
Serial controller: US Robotics/3Com 56K FaxModem Model 5610 (rev 1).
IRQ 5. I/O at 0xb800 [0xb807]) and it has worked in every
version/distro of linux I've tried. I haven't had to do much configuring
since kernel 2.4.0 came out. But at that time I had to make the ln -s
/dev/ttyS4 /dev/modem. However, with the new devfs, it is on
ttyS04 at port 0xb800 (irq = 5) according to dmesg (which may just be another
way to represent /dev/ttyS4), tho the link /dev/modem (which is what I have
to choose in kppp ) still points to a ttyS4 that points to tts/4. So if
you were to setserial, which should you set it to? I would try ttyS4. But
you may have to chain link yours all the way to /dev/tts/4. You'll need the
link /dev/modem for kppp if that's what you use. I hear most of these cards
want (are preconfigured to) com5. I don't recall any jumpers on it either.
Did this make sense? Well anyway, I hope this helps some.
-s
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