Dear Sir,
The option of "Plug and Play aware OS" is off in my system. Plus, pnpdump
detected my modem as BocaModem. However, the rest was a lot of configuration
options which I couldn't make out what to do with. Something like "Multiple
choice time. Choose one only!" And then a list of some ports (COM2 and COM3)
and some IRQs, all commented.. Is there some configuration file to edit? I
want to config the modem as COM3, IRQ 5 (it supports 3,4,5 or 7). Can I find
out if this will interfere with something else? Please help me on this!
Thanking you,
Best regards,
Amit
----- Original Message -----
From: Babu Kalakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2000 18:23
Subject: Re: [LIH] Modem Initialization help required
> On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 03:01:56PM +0530, Sthitaprajna typed:
> > On 15 Jul 00, at 12:51, Amit N. Gandhi wrote:
> >
> > > I have some problems and was hoping you could help me. I have a Boca
> > > FDVSP34J (ISA PnP) modem. I installed Red Hat Linux 6.2 on my
computer.
> > > While the modem worked fine on Windows 95 earlier, now Linux is unable
to
> > > detect the modem on any of the COM ports (1,2,3 or 4). I used DEBUG
under
> >
> > Yours is an internal modem. Linux does not support internal modems - no
> > "drivers" as you say are available for these as under Windows. A few
> >
>
> "Linux does not support internam modems" is an absolutely incorrect
> statement. Winmodems, which are only a subset of internal modems are
> the ones not supported. Most Winmodems use the PCI bus and since this
> one is an ISA bus modem, it's very likely to be a "genuine" modem. (Only
> a theory of mine - can't vouch for it)
>
> Amit, try the following :
>
> 1) Check up your BIOS settings - You should find an entry which says
> "OS is Plug and Play aware" or something to that effect. Ensure that
> this is turned OFF. (Linux is not Plug and Play aware, and this setting
> will make sure that the BIOS performs the configuration of PnP devices
> it finds on the ISA bus).
>
> 2) Run pnpdump and see if your modem card is detected - If so, note down
> the Port and IRQ settings.
>
> 3) Run setserial to manually configure COM3 or COM4 to match the settings
> that you found in step 2.
>
> Kala
>
>
>
>
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