are you sure your modem is not a winmodem?
the standard pcmcia linux help page was all I needed as a newbie with very
little experience of any thing?
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Jonathan Chetwynd
Special needs teacher / web accessibility consultant
education and outreach working group member, web accessibility initiative,
W3C
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Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 11:56 PM
Subject: Problem with modem configuration
> Hello all,
>
> I just get Linux (RedHat 6.1) working on my brand new laptop.
> I would like to use my modem under linux now, but I do face the following
> problem:
> Apparently pcmcia loads ok, even cardctl detect my modem ... fine
> But when I try to use this modem, it fails. I use C-kermit and when
> I do the 'set line /dev/ttyS1' I get a:
>
> /dev/ttyS1 is not a terminal device
> Sorry, can't open connection: /dev/ttyS1
>
> Following the PCMCIA Howto TroubleShooting, I used `setserial` to use irq
0.
> Then I could have the modem working. According to this same PCMCIA Howto,
this
> is likelly to show a IRQ conflict.
> I tried to exclude the irq used by pcmcia at boot time (irq 3), it then
uses
> irq 9, but the problem remains. I excluded irq 9, then 10, then ... but
> my problem is still there, whatever irq is used.
> Do anybody have an idea of what I could no investigate to solve this
> problem?
>
> Thanks in advance for any hints.
>
> Gerald Carrier.
>
>
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