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?
Michael....First, find out the pci address of the modem: . lspci . And use that address (of the form xx:xx.x) to get verbose info: . lspci -v -s xx:xx.x . Write down the io and IRQ being used. Then run setserial: . setserial /dev/ttyS4 port 0x#### irq ## . Then verify that it sees a UART with: . setserial /dev/ttyS4 . If it doesn't, you can guess that it's a regular 16550A UART: . setserial /dev/ttyS4 uart 16550A . This is the part that makes it work though: . cd /dev ln -sf ttyS4 modem . Now set your kppp program to use /dev/modem and you should be fine. :) -- Alan
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