G'day mate air yegowan?
Have you read the Linmodem-HOWTO??
There is a clue there! (or ten)
To save you poring over the doc with a fine tooth comb I will tell you.
The pnpdump > isapnp.conf file will contain an ACT Y line at the end of each
device story.
If you get the range check message you describe below, try leaving the ACT Y
line at the end of the modem story COMMENTED OUT.
Also.......
To figure out which IO to use, have a look at either the BIOS or the output
of dmesg | less to see what ports your existing /dev/ttySn's are using.
Usually these ports are 0x2f8 for ttyS0 and 0x3f8 for ttyS1. this means you
must use 0x2e8 or 0x3e8 for your modem. The ltmodem driver will produce a
port called /dev/ttyS14 or /dev/ttyLT0.
Speaking from personal experience with both pci and isa lucent modems, I
think your mad to rely on these things.They play up like a second-hand
lawnmower when used with linux. Having said that, I notice that you are
using 2.2.12. This is the kernel most likely to talk turkey with a Lucent
-chipset modem.
If the above info has got your modem recognised, your frustration is
possibly not yet over. The version of pppd you are using is also critical.
The wrong one will make your machine CRASH every time. Here I can't help you
any further. I am still trying to find one that doesn't.
As Richard says, get ltmodem-5.78e.tar.gz and read 1ST READ very carefully.
Good luck. Please keep in touch and let me know what you find out.
Peter Barrett
Network Integrity
Working with the civil construction industry to prevent damage
to Telstra's underground assets
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Brown [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, 6 June 2001 1:21 am
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: /dev/modem
>
> As those who've been following this thread know, I'm
> trying to get a PnP modem to work. I'm using Definite 7.0
> (which is based on Red Hat); kernel version 2.2.12-10.
> (The modem is a Motorola VoiceSURFR 56k.)
>
> I'm definitely grokking things better now, with help from
> various resources including this list.
>
> By my current understanding, I have three choices.
>
> CHOICE #1: Let my PnP BIOS do the work.
>
> Apparently to do this I need to know what readport address
> to use. The man page for isapnp.conf tells me:
>
> >Due to the difficulty of determining the correct READPORT
> >address to use (which must be the same as the one the BIOS
> >used), this method may be tricky to get working.
>
> , but doesn't go into any more detail. I poked around my
> BIOS (Award -- don't have the version handy) a bit, but
> didn't see anything there about readports. Nothing good
> in the boot messages either.
>
> CHOICE #2: Uncomment isapnp.conf (the output of pnpdump)
> by hand.
>
> I know that I need to uncomment an IO line (to set the IO
> address), and an INT line (to set the IRQ), and ACT Y, to
> enable the modem. But I don't know which ones to choose.
> (However, see below.)
>
> CHOICE #3: Use the --config option, so that pnpdump does
> the uncommenting for me.
>
> This didn't work, apparently because isapnp.gone is
> currently a dummy file that does not reflect the true state
> of my system.
>
> * * *
>
> After writing the above, I looked in /proc/interrupts and
> /proc/ioports, and uncommented isapnp.conf based on what I
> found out.
>
> When I ran isapnp, I got an error message that told me:
>
> IO range check attempted while device activated.
>
> My IO range is free according to /proc/ioports, so
> apparently that's not the problem.
>
> What am I doing wrong? (And could I avoid the whole
> problem if I figured out the readport address and let my
> BIOS do the work?)
>
> --AARON B.
> Farmington Hills, Michigan
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://homestead.juno.com/aaron-brown/
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