Hi,
I'd like to thank all who responded to my question. After
coming back from a trip over the weekend, my first task was to get
XFree86 working. Then I printed out all the responses I got regarding
the modem problem last night, planning to spend a few hours on it. The
first thing I did was, of course, try a connection; and it connected
without a problem!
I am both delighted and puzzled, for I spent a lot of time over
a few days not being able to get a dial tone. Anyway, the bios setting
now is [auto] for both serial and parallel; I did remember seeing other
stuff for the parallel, though I must have tested the current setting
before asking for help.
By the way, has anyone being able to send/receive fax from Linux? I
followed the "fax" man page and tried it, but could get it
to work -- got a lot of error messages about wrong response.
Lee
Peter Bailey wrote:
>
> Woo.. hold up. PCMCIA cards don't use the bios serial setting.
> I'm not sure at all why that would do anything except maybe that when you
> had serial enabled in the bios, it assigned the serial connector on the
> back of the computer to cua0 regardless of anything plugged in. Then when
> you plugged the modem card in, it assigned it to cua1, but when it was on
> auto and nothing was in the plug, it assigned modem to cua0. I'm willing
> to bet that if you set it to serial disabled, it will work fine. That
> will exclude you from using that serial connector on the back of the
> computer though. It's also possible that win98 will just use your serial
> port anyway. That should be fine. Now that I think about it though, it
> might not make any difference. Try it though. Come to think of it even
> more it really makes no sense unless your card services is old and doesn't
> realize your card is a modem. Maybe if it's a combo card? Card services
> should make a link from /dev/cua[modem] to /dev/modem. Mine is linked to
> /dev/cua1 because I have my serial port enabled and a mouse plugged in.
> There's maybe a workaround there if that's the problem. Try soft linking
> /dev/cua1 /dev/modem, see if that works, then try /dev/cua0 /dev/modem and
> see if that works. If that's the case, go download the newest
> cardservices and compile the beast. That should clear it up.
> It sure would be a hell of a lot easier just have responses to
> these questions because I'm going off on every tangent I can think of.
> Anyway, if none of that works, let us know what serial port it's on, if
> it's a warm boot only thing of if after installing things in windows it
> takes over from cold boot. When does it work? If it does work in Linux
> at all go type cardctl config and check the irq it's running on. Then go
> to when it doesn't work and check the irq. If they are different it's a
> warm boot only condition and you'll just have to rid your computer of
> win98 alltogether. I imagine that with a laptop there's not much turning
> off that goes on anyway(at least for me, of course all I'm running is
> linux), but still it seems like you probably just warm boot a lot right?
> Okay, I'm done
>
> On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Lee Ko wrote:
>
> > I installed TurboLinux on my I7k with a 3Com PCMCIA modem some time
> > ago.
> > At first, Linux could not see the modem. Then I changed the bios serial
> > port
> > setting from "enabled" to "auto", then the modem worked fine on both
> > Linux
> > and Win98. Later, I tried out connecting the system, under Win98, to
> > several
> > external stuffs, monitor, mouse and printer. Afterward, Linux could not
> > see
> > the modem again. Anyone knowledgeable enough to know what might have
> > happened
> > and how to fix it?
> >
> > Lee Ko
> >
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