Here is an outline of what you need to do to try to get your modem working.
1. Since your modem is internal, make sure it is NOT an HSP modem
("Winmodem"). Check this at URL
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html . In general, pci-bus
modems are almost surely HSP, while isa-bus and pcmcia modems
may or may not be HSP. No external modems are HSP. HSP modems
CANNOT be used with Linux -- if you have one, you have to replace
it with something else that will work. Since you say your modem *is*
PCI, this is likely to be your problem.
2. Assuming that for some reason it is not, you need to note during the boot
process (or by checking dmesg) what /dev/ttyS* the kernel reports your modem
(or more exactly, the serial port component of the modem) as being on. You
can't count on it being the same under Linux as under Windows, if it is PnP.
For help with PnP issues, start by reading the Plug and Play HowTo.
3. Once you have a /dev entry, use setserial to verify that the modem is
there. If you type (using S2 as an example) "setserial /dev/ttyS2", you
should get a report back that includes a UART type. If the report doesn't
include that, setserial hasn't found your modem, no matter what else it
reports. (There may be, for example, an interrupt or ioport conflict. Check
/proc/interrupts and /proc/ioports to see what ones are in use by what.)
BTW, do use the ttyS* ports, not the corresponding cua* ports, which are in
the process of becoming obsolete.
4. If you manage to find the modem, there are several ways to start a ppp
connection. The easiest, in my opinion, is by hand, using the scripts
/usr/sbin/ppp-on and /usr/sbin/ppp-off . If you don't have them, they are
listed in the PPP HowTo.
Hope this is enough to get you moving forward.
BTW, HowTos can usually be found on a Linux system somewhere in /usr/doc,
but the exact location varies by distribution and version. HowTos and
mini-HowTos can also be found on the Web at URL
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX-3.html#ss3.1 .
At 10:29 PM 3/15/99 -0500, Dominic Brunelle wrote [abridged]:
>I'm trying to set up my ppp and my modem to get hocked to the net. Where
>should i start... if i do a pppd, i actually see some junk, the one that is
>suppose to be. I did the setserial thing to detect and autoconfig the
>ports, but it doesn't seems to detect the port cua2 and cua3. 'cause, if i
>do a "stty ctrscts /dev/cua2" (com3 is my modem port), it returns a standard
>input/output error, but it does not do it if i do the same command on the
>cua1 or cua0.
>Then, if i try the procedure to try manually to connect, i start minicom,
>initialize (it indicate online 0:00 in the status bar), quit without
>resetting and then do the "pppd -d -detatch /dev/cua2 115200 &" (might not
>be exact, i don't have it in front of me), i get nothing! Nothing also if i
>do a "ifconfig" or a "route -n".
>
>I have the scripts in /etc/ppp/scripts, do i have to put them someplace
>else? I have the resolv.conf file, the hosts.conf and the options file made
>from the options.tpl
>
>I have a SupraMax 56i PCI in my computer. By the way, if someone have the
>options file for this kind of modem could yo send it, i'm not sure of all
>the specs of the modem. It might be part of the problem...
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