On Wednesday 16 May 2007 12:15, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:19:13AM +0100, Mick wrote > > > On Sunday 13 May 2007 21:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > My ADSL connection had a short outage yesterday. I discovered, to my > > > consternation, that my machine's internal modem wasn't being picked up. > > > > Was this working before then - e.g. since the last time you compiled your > > kernel? > > > > In any case you would probably want to (r)emerge the driver for this > > modem. > > It's *NOT* a "winmodem". It's a bog-standard PCI modem that has > worked in the past under linux without requiring special drivers. The > only tweak it requires is allocating more than 4 serial ports in the > kernel, which I've done.
Apologies! I have not come across a real internal modem so far and I readily assumed that it was a softmodem. I thought that the "more than 4 ports" setting was required for softmodems not real modems. -- Regards, Mick
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