According to Eugene R. Worth, M.D.: While burning my CPU.
>
> OK, folks, most of you may not connect to the outside world via a modem,
> but I sure do. I recently purchased a PCI modem that was not PnP and could
> be configured to work in my Linux box. But ... the manufacturer configured
> the modem for COM 5! The upshot of this post is that I cannot reach the
> modem at all!
But you could use 'setserial' to change commport settings on your system.
"man setserial" will help.
For example on a machine at our local club we use;
setserial -v /dev/modem irq 5
we have a symbolic link in /dev like..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root uucp 4 Mar 6 1998 /dev/modem -> cua3
Hope this helps.
>
> It is an inexpensive modem (read off-breed) with a Cirrus Logic chipset. If
> anyone has suggestions about this modem ... or, better yet, about 56K
> modems that configure easily using modemtool and minicom, please reply. I
> need to purchase a modem that works with Linux, preferably in the next few
> days.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> gene
>
> Eugene R. Worth, MD, MEd
> Medical Information Technologies, Inc.
> 400 E. High Point Lane
> Columbia, MO 65203
> Voice:(573) 449-6861 Fax:[573] 449=6764
>
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Regards Richard.
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