Normally when you start minicom it flashes a box: initializing modem,
then displays the modem init string as echoed by the modem, followe by
the modem's response:
OK
If you get this, it's working and configured. Is a phone line plugged
into the modem? Try plugging a phone into the other jack on the modem
and see if it can get a dialtone.
If not, kernel serial initialization only sets the serial ports to the
defaults, which are not often right for an internal modem. You must use
setserial to set the irq and other attributes. Once you get it right,
it can go in /etc/rc.d/rc.local to be done for you at bootup.
man setserial is a modem micro howto.
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Rhett Daza wrote:
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I've found minicom (thanks to everyone who advised this) but now I
can't
> seem to get the internal modem to work (its not a windmodem). I keep
getting
> a NO DIALTONE report although the phone is working.
>
> During installation of RH5.2, I confirmed the presence of an internal
modem.
> But I don't see an entry in /etc/fstab. What am I missing here; and is
> there a modem how-to somehere out there?
>
Block devices that hold filesystems go in /etc/fstab, if they are to be
automounted at startup or mountable by a non-privileged user after.
Modems have no place there.
There is a modem howto, but I think it's newer than my sunsite archive
cd. I'd try looking there, though.
metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/howto[/mini]
You might also find the Serial- and NET-3 HOWTO's useful.
Lawson
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