hi everybody,
this is my first posting. so here goes. the name is subash,
m/36,currently at chennai. occupation: done many things, currently
making up my mind. and taking my own sweet time
over it. came to know about this mailing list from atul chitnis's column
in pcquest.
i have a problem configuring my internal modem to work under linux and i
would really appreciate any help from those who have gone through this
thing before. the details. my
pc first: pentium mmx 200, 64 mb ram, 4.1 gb hardisk (two partitions of
equal size: one for win98 and the other for suse 6.2), s3 trio 64v2/dx
based vga card with 2 mb memory, 3 pci slots(only one of which is filled
by the vga card) and 3 isa slots: one slot is taken up by AD1816-based
sound card and another slot is taken up by a hayes accura 56k internal
speakerphone modem. both the isa cards are pnp cards. the modem is not a
winmodem. it works pretty well under the qnx demo version which fits
into a single floppy.
what i have done till now:
1) first i used the oss sound utility to configure my sound card and
added the necessary entries to the boot.local file under /sbin/init.d so
that it automatically loads during
bootup.
2) then i used pnpdump with the -c option to generate the isapnp.conf
file and using an editor, deleted everything relating to the soundcard
so that it had only the options for
the modem.
3) when i executed isapnp, it gave a message saying there was a fatal
error allocating I/O resources.
4) using cat /proc/ioports, i got a list of the I/O addresses being used
by the system.
5) i tried using many I/O addresses that were not being used but still
isapnp gives the same error message.
6) spent some time glaring at the monitor and finally here i am asking
for help.
the pnp feature of the modem can be disabled by removing a jumper but
when i do that my mouse goes and dies under win98.
i went to the ILUG-chennai website and when i saw that it had last been
updated around feb 1998 i was not sure whether it was still
operational/functional.
once again, i would really appreciate anyone taking the time off to help
me out. regards, subash.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
For information on this and other Linux India mailing lists check out
http://lists.linux-india.org/
