Linux-Hardware Digest #284, Volume #11 Sat, 18 Sep 99 16:13:30 EDT
Contents:
SBLive on Mandrake 6.1?? ("Paul Harker")
Re: Voice Modem Voice Mail Suggestion (David Pace)
Re: Wheel Mouse? (Bryan)
Re: Anybody tried Linux on Athlon yet? (Francois Labreque)
Re: Wheel Mouse? (Chetan Bhargava)
Boot hangs question (rincon)
Re: TNT2 X Server for RH 6.0 (Timothy Murphy)
Mitsumi CD rom drive
Re: SBLive on Mandrake 6.1?? (Bert Riewald)
Re: TNT2 X Server for RH 6.0 ("Frank Kryszon")
Re: TNT2 and TV tuners (Wayne Parrott)
how to see SCSI id's? (Hannu)
Re: Anyone using Linksys Fast Ethernet 10/100 Network in a Box ? (OldUncleMe)
Video4Linux Problem: Bttv/Pace TV Card (Simon Wood)
Re: how to see SCSI id's? (Mike Frisch)
Re: SVGATextMode with Riva TNT (Diamond Viper V550) (Lyren Brown)
Re: ethernet hub/linux compatibilty? (Michael Meissner)
Problems with my VGA intel i740 8Mb and RH6! ("Pierre van Slana")
support for secondary IDE interface... (rajiv kukreja)
installing RH on IBM Aptiva series (Michael)
Modem dial tones not seen by phone line ("Scott C. Gray")
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From: "Paul Harker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: SBLive on Mandrake 6.1??
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 12:38:50 -0400
I am a newbie. I admit it. Please keep flame size within federal guidelines:
Does anyone SBLive! (value) working with Madrake 6.1?
I am trying to get the Creative emu10k1.o to work and am not having much
(any) luck. I have added to my /etc/conf.modules
alias sound emu10k1
pre-install emu10k1 insmod soundcore
post-remove emu10k1 rmmod soundcore
install emu10k1 insmod -f emu10k1
I get errors listed on emu10k1.o when I do "depmod -a" Also, when I attempt
"insmod -f emu10k1.o" I get a list of unresolved references. As best I can
tell, soundcore is loaded, as if I try to load it, it tells me it is already
there.
I've been through this a dozen times, and have commented out the post/pre
lines on some trys (according to instruction I found at "The Sound Blaster
Live! - Linux Page"
I wonder if the Pentium optimiaztion of the kernal is responsible, but I am
a real Linux know-nothing at this point, and so any help would be
appreciated!!
Paul
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From: David Pace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Voice Modem Voice Mail Suggestion
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 13:43:11 -0400
David Cowan wrote:
> I am wanting to use my linux machine as an answering machine and fax answer.
> I need a suggestion on what modem to get prefferably cheap that has good
> voice support in linux... also some suggestions on software would be good.
> I eventually want to be able to check my voice mail over the web if there is
> anything out there to do that... or simplify it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David Cowan
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Go to http://www.freshmeat.net and search for "voice mail".
There are many good leads in there.
--
Free commodity/stock graphing software
and Linux links at http://www.daveware.com
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From: Bryan <Bryan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Wheel Mouse?
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 16:55:49 GMT
the proper solution is to check deja.com before asking the same
question over and over again (this gets asked at least once a week).
ok - doing the work for you:
http://x39.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=513540146&CONTEXT=937673594.1423179785&hitnum=75
and
http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/
Bill Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I have one as well. The solution was to run XF86Setup and select IMP2
: as your mouse. You won't be able to scroll using the wheel
wrong.
:, but the
: wheel does act as a third mouse button which can be useful in X
: Windows. Hope this helps.
: Bill Allen
: "David St.Clair" wrote:
: >
: > Anybody know if wheel mice work in Linux? If so, what do I need to do to
: > configure it? I'm using a PS/2 driver right now.
: >
: > Thanks,
: >
: > David
: > St.Clair
--
Bryan, http://www.Grateful.Net - Linux/Web-based Network Management
->->-> to email me, you must hunt the WUMPUS and kill it.
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Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 12:28:17 -0400
From: Francois Labreque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Anybody tried Linux on Athlon yet?
Bryan wrote:
>
> are there motherboards even out (for consumers) for the k7 yet?
I don't know if there are motherboards available to the general public
to put in there clones, but the big vendors (IBM, Dell, etc...) have
Athlon-based machines on the market.
>
> M. Thomas Frederiksen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : I'm ready to buy a new box and am looking hard at the new Athlon. I
> : haven't been able to find any word on whether Linux works on Athlon or
> : not. Anybody tried it yet? If so, what motherboard/chipset?
>
> : If you want to send email, please send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> : Thanks in advance,
>
> : Bruce Frederiksen,
>
> : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (which is not the email address on this posting -- sorry!)
>
> --
> Bryan, http://www.Grateful.Net - Linux/Web-based Network Management
> ->->-> to email me, you must hunt the WUMPUS and kill it.
--
Francois Labreque | The surest sign of the existence of extra-
flabreq(a)ibm,net | terrestrial intelligence is that they never
| bothered to come down here and visit us!
- Calvin
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From: Chetan Bhargava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Wheel Mouse?
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 18:06:15 GMT
It does work in Linux after some modification in XFree86 files. Visit
www.xfree86.org for more info.
Thanks
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"David St.Clair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anybody know if wheel mice work in Linux? If so, what do I need to do
to
> configure it? I'm using a PS/2 driver right now.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
> St.Clair
>
>
--
Chetan Bhargava
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 16:43:06 +0000
From: rincon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Boot hangs question
Sometimes while booting I get this statement and the boot hangs for
several minutes:
/dev/hdb4 has reached maximal mount count check forced.
Is this a problem? What sould I do?
--
Thank you,
Gerardo Rincon
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Murphy)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: TNT2 X Server for RH 6.0
Date: 18 Sep 1999 19:24:31 +0100
Michael Imberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>However, I am rather confused as to which file
>corresponds to the TNT2 supported X server:
...
> XSVGA.tgz SVGA server
...
This one, I believe.
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tel: +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mitsumi CD rom drive
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 16:31:23 GMT
Hi. I have a Mitsumi 2X CD rom drive (FX001) which has to connect via the
Mitsumi port on an Opti
soundcard, Mad16 type as it's not genuine IDE. I want to use Red Hat Linux,
but the installer on 5.2
cannot find the drive, and doesn't have an option for the isp16 driver,
which I think is the required one from
reading the howto's. Can anyone help? Thanks.
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From: Bert Riewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: SBLive on Mandrake 6.1??
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 18:49:35 +0000
Paul Harker wrote:
> I am a newbie. I admit it. Please keep flame size within federal guidelines:
> Does anyone SBLive! (value) working with Madrake 6.1?
>
> I am trying to get the Creative emu10k1.o to work and am not having much
> (any) luck. I have added to my /etc/conf.modules
>
> alias sound emu10k1
> pre-install emu10k1 insmod soundcore
> post-remove emu10k1 rmmod soundcore
> install emu10k1 insmod -f emu10k1
>
> I get errors listed on emu10k1.o when I do "depmod -a" Also, when I attempt
> "insmod -f emu10k1.o" I get a list of unresolved references. As best I can
> tell, soundcore is loaded, as if I try to load it, it tells me it is already
> there.
>
> I've been through this a dozen times, and have commented out the post/pre
> lines on some trys (according to instruction I found at "The Sound Blaster
> Live! - Linux Page"
>
> I wonder if the Pentium optimiaztion of the kernal is responsible, but I am
> a real Linux know-nothing at this point, and so any help would be
> appreciated!!
>
> Paul
I had the same problem, so I recompiled the kernel.
You should modify the following in /usr/src/linux/Makefile :
Uncomment line 69 (INSTALL_PATH=/boot)
Execute the following command in /usr/src/linux: make menuconfig
Select: loadable module support
Unselect: Set version information on all symbols for modules.
Execute the the following commands:
make clean
make dep
make bzlilo
make modules
make modules_install
Rename /boot/initrd-2.2.13-7mdk.img
Execute the following command:
mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.2.13-7mdk.img 2.2.13-7mdk
Rerun lilo
Your /etc/cong.modules looks good to me.
Copy emu10k1.o-2.2.10 to /lib/modules/2.2.13-mdk/misc/emu10k1.o
Reboot and your SBlive should word.
Good luck,
Bert Riewald
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From: "Frank Kryszon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: TNT2 X Server for RH 6.0
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 20:53:11 +0200
check out my homepage - i published a easy step-by-step guide for TNT/TNT2
in X
--
Frank Kryszon
UIN 3081857
http://move.to/linuz
Michael Imberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am in the process of installing RedHat 6.0 and have Xentor32 TNT2
> card. I see there is now support for the TNT2 chipset in the xfree86
> package ver 3.3.5. However, I am rather confused as to which file
> corresponds to the TNT2 supported X server:
> X3DL.tgz 3Dlabs server
> X8514.tgz 8514/A server
> XAGX.tgz AGX server
> XI128.tgz I128 server
> XMa32.tgz Mach 32 server
> XMa64.tgz Mach 64 server
> XMa8.tgz Mach 8 server
> XMono.tgz Mono server
> XP9K.tgz P9000 server
> XS3.tgz S3 server
> XS3V.tgz old S3 ViRGE server (please use SVGA server)
> XSVGA.tgz SVGA server
> XVG16.tgz 16 colour VGA server (XF86Setup needs this
> server)
> XW32.tgz ET4000/W32, ET6000 server
> Perhaps, I am looking at the wrong place
>
(ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/3.3.5/binaries/Linux-ix86-glibc/Servers/)
.
> Please advise as to which is the proper x server from above or guide me
> to the right location.
>
> Thanks,
> M
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wayne Parrott)
Subject: Re: TNT2 and TV tuners
Date: 18 Sep 99 18:32:09 GMT
I've got a TNT 1 and a bt878 based TV card and they work fine together.
del Pino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Hi! Anybody knows if Riva TNT 2 video card and Lifetech Flyvideo TV
>tuner work well together? I'm going to buy the former and I want to get
>sure it is going to work OK before that, because I currently have a
>Trident 3Dimage 975 AGP and they hate themselves! Everytime I try to
>watch TV the system hangs. So, can anybody help me? Thanks in advance!
>Ral del Pino
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hannu)
Subject: how to see SCSI id's?
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 18:06:08 GMT
I have two Linux 2.2.5 systems, Intel and Sparc.
Both are all SCSI.
How do I see the SCSI numbers that are currently assigned to the
devices?
Hannu
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (OldUncleMe)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Anyone using Linksys Fast Ethernet 10/100 Network in a Box ?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 18:57:42 GMT
It was: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 17:01:09 -0700 and with STARTLING insight, "Jose
Otero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
posted "Re: Anyone using Linksys Fast Ethernet 10/100 Network in a Box ?"
to "comp.os.linux.hardware" :
-->If anyone has got there Linksys card to work (the one with wake up on LAN
-->support) please write me with some info. Also, although I am doing this
-->backwards, has anyone networked linux through windows running a proxy
-->server?
-->Jose
Yup. Running '98 and a program -- Nat 1000 -- whose company was bought out
by M$ and the prog is included in 98SE, as a feature with its own name.
Not sure what M$ calls it. Works like a charm. Any machine on my lan
whose gateway is set to the Nat machine (and has valid dns server entries
--same as my provider, but could use public or private dns servers also --
I've tested use with public servers, no problem) connects to the internet
through its internet connection, cable modem. Seamless. Little or no
apparent processing overhead on the routing machine, no other special
configuration on _any_ machine on the lan; on the routing machine, nothing
other than setting up the nat program. Nat has worked the same for NT,
several flavors of Linux, several of '95, even dos machines. Just direct
those otherwise usatisfied requests to the gateway machine.
Nat will work without entering dns information on the lan machines, but
only if ip#'s are used. Dns entries must exist for ip conversion on each
machine.
I imagine that using proxy software to route the lan through one machine's
internet connection would not be much more involved, but that depends on
the software..... /ts
tenox @ home dat com
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From: Simon Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Video4Linux Problem: Bttv/Pace TV Card
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 18:30:42 GMT
Hello all,
I'm trying to get a Pace TV Card running with the BTTV driver, but I'm
only having partial success.
Current status is composite input working but colours screwed on screen
(strangely they appear OK in a 'capture').
UHF Tuning is not working at all, it just shows static.
The board has the following bits:
Bt878KHF (28MHz XTAL)
MSP3410D_PS
Philips FI1246MK1 (Pal-I tuner)
The composite input works (with wierd colours) with the following (bttv)
card settings:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14,15, 17, 19
The closest description to the pace card is the '13' but it doesn't find
the tuner (or auto-load the tuner module) and has an error geting MSP's
id.
[from /log/var/messages]
Sep 17 20:10:14 frostie kernel: bttv0: Brooktree Bt878 (rev 2) bus: 0,
devfn:40, irq: 10, memory: 0xed6fe000.
Sep 17 20:10:14 frostie kernel: PCI: Enabling bus mastering for device
00:28
Sep 17 20:10:14 frostie kernel: bttv: 1 Bt8xx card(s) found.
Sep 17 20:10:14 frostie kernel: bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950... ok
Sep 17 20:10:14 frostie kernel: bttv0: audio chip: TDA9840
Sep 17 20:10:14 frostie kernel: bttv0: audio chip: TDA9850
Sep 17 20:10:14 frostie kernel: bttv0: audio chip: TDA8425
Sep 17 20:10:14 frostie kernel: bttv0: fader chip: TEA6300
Sep 17 20:10:14 frostie kernel: bttv0: model: BT878(AVerMedia TVCapture
98)
Sep 17 20:10:14 frostie kernel: msp3400: error while reading chip
version
I've set the tuner options to 'type 1' in conf.modules.
Have anyone got any bright ideas of what else I can try to:
1). Get colours appearing correctly.
2). Get the UHF Tuning Working.
Simon Wood.
PS. I'm running SuSE 6.2 (with a 2.2.12 kernel). Testing has been done
using Kwintv and wmtv.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Frisch)
Subject: Re: how to see SCSI id's?
Date: 18 Sep 1999 18:40:06 GMT
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999 18:06:08 GMT, Hannu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have two Linux 2.2.5 systems, Intel and Sparc.
>Both are all SCSI.
>How do I see the SCSI numbers that are currently assigned to the
>devices?
On my Intel machine, 'cat /proc/scsi/scsi' displays the device information
(including IDs). I suspect it'll be the same on Sparc.
Mike.
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======================================================================
Mike Frisch Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Northstar Technologies WWW: http://saturn.tlug.org/~mfrisch
Newmarket, Ontario, CANADA
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From: Lyren Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: SVGATextMode with Riva TNT (Diamond Viper V550)
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:31:22 GMT
> Michael Champagne wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to setup SVGATextMode with my Diamond Viper V550 and I'm unable to
> > find any documentation on my chip's clock settings. The chip is a RIVA TNT,
> > and in my XConfig it doesn't seem refer to the clock settings. Anyone know
> > where I can get some information on setting up SVGATextMode with this
> > hardware? Thanks.
> > --
> > ====================================
> > Michael Champagne, Software Engineer
> > Capital Institutional Services, Inc.
> > Dallas, TX
> > hm: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > wk: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > ====================================
I'm using a Creative Labs TNT2 Ultra with SVGATextMode. I can get modes
that require a 40Mhz clock by using the standard VGA clock line plus a
"40.0" tagged on in position 5. I'm still looking for the 45Mhz clock
though! Does anyone know how to fanagle the Clocks line for 45, 50, etc?
# Lyren's clocks line for CL TNT2 Ultra
Clocks 25.175 28.3 0 36 40
This gets me 132x43x8, 116x43x9, etc. -Lyren
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Subject: Re: ethernet hub/linux compatibilty?
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 18 Sep 1999 15:33:36 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John McKown) writes:
> I could be totally incorrect, but I simply don't see how Linux would care
> about what hub is out there. Once the packets hit the Ethernet cable, Linux
> (and Windows and <whatever>). shouldn't care. So long as the hub conforms
> to the appropriate standards. Isn't a hub "transparent" to the NIC. That
> is, you can't talk to a hub itself, it's just a switch of some sort.
>
> If I'm totally incorrect, please somebody correct me. And explain how the
> hub works, 'cause I think it's just a "dumb" switch.
My Okidata 20dxn printer came with a 10Mbit network card that would not work
with my 10/100 Mbit auto-sensing hubs (3com office connects now, but I'm sure I
tried it on either my earlier Linksys or SOHOware hubs as well). It worked
fine on my older Netgear 10 Mbit hub (I afterwards upgraded it to the newer
network card that does 100 Mbit just fine).
Note, a "switch" is different (and more expensive) than a "hub". IIRC, a "hub"
puts all of the ports on the same wires (for autosense hubs, one for 10 Mbit,
and the other for 100 Mbit), sort like a giant scsi chain, and you are usually
limited to having just two hubs interconnected. All traffic goes to all
stations. A "switch" is more of a store and forward network, generally you
plug hubs into switches, and the switch will route traffic accordingly.
--
Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions
PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 978-486-9304 fax: 978-692-4482
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From: "Pierre van Slana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with my VGA intel i740 8Mb and RH6!
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 21:29:09 +0200
Well as they released the last drivers (1.0.0 on dec 1998) they didn't
include them in the latest RedHat release??? There are drivers for Riva TNT
and so on but none for the i740 ??? How come?!
Well anyway the last rpm release i can't seem to get them to work (as
descriped in the README for RH5.2!)???
plz help
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From: rajiv kukreja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: support for secondary IDE interface...
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 15:43:51 -0400
hi all,
i'm in somewhat of a bind and am relatively new to this - so i thought
i'd ask the experts.
i'm running the mandrake 6 distribution of linux on a dual pII 350 /
128MB machine.
i recently bought a new CDROM drive (Blaster 48x from CreativeLabs) and
installed it on the secondary IDE interface. the problem is that my
installation doesn't seem to know about the secondary interface.
all i have in /proc/pci is ide0. i realized this while trying to debug
why the CDROM drive is not found.
if anyone has any insights into what the procedure is for adding support
for a secondary IDE interface - that would be a great help.
i've tried searching through HOWTO's and FAQs but could not find
anything directly relevant.
thanks very much
rajiv
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From: Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: installing RH on IBM Aptiva series
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 14:30:20 +0000
Other than the MWAVE sound/modem card, is anyone aware of any problems
installing Red Hat Linux 6.0 on the IBM Aptiva series of computers?
Thanks,
Michael
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From: "Scott C. Gray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modem dial tones not seen by phone line
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:13:25 GMT
I am having a rather frusting problem with my laptop's
PCMCIA modem (info: I'm using pcmcia-3.0.13, modem is
a 3Com 3CXM056B, kernel 2.2.9).
The pcmcia card manager recognizes the modem just fine
and installs it on ttyS1 (IRQ3, port 0x02f8). Using
minicom I can talk to the modem just fine and issue
AT commands. The only problem is that when I dial,
I hear the dial tone and I can hear the modem dialing,
but the phone line itself never gets the pulse tones
from the modem. That is, when the modem finishes dialing,
I still hear dial tone on the line.
Any ideas on what might be causing this? I have checked
the IRQ's, and it doesn't *look* like there is a conflict,
but I'm not sure.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
-scott
--
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http://www.voicenet.com/~gray/sqsh.html
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