On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Paul Heeney wrote about, modem question:
>
> I have an SupraExpress 56i Pro internal modem on my windows box attached to COM3 and
>my mouse which is attached to COM1.
> I have tried to add an external modem for use with linux but i continually get error
>messages e.g "modem busy/can`t find modem" I do not appear to have a COM2!
> How can i get my external modem to work without entering my bios and enabling COM2
>which i`d be very anxious about doing?
> Paul
>
I dont normally answer questions on modems but considering the list seems
to be in a disarry at the minute i will explain the basics.
But before i do a couple of comments.
You are using a windows charset in your mail, Kmail moans about it.
Another thing is line wraps, they seem to be non exsitant.
A mouse on com1 and a modem on com3 cannot work togehter unless you have a
different IRQ for both, standard settings are;
com1 = 0x03f8 IRQ4
com3 = 0x03e8 IRQ4
So what that means is you have your mouse on com1 and it takes up the
interrupt, the message device ro resouce busy, is saying that IRQ4 is busy
because the mouse is using it.
To assign a different IRQ you use 'setserial'
setserial /dev/ttyS2 IRQ 5
to assign IRQ 5.
You say you dont have a com2, and you also say you are anxious about
entering the BIOS, so if you have never entered the BIOS before then you
quite possably do have com2 as that is a default in every BIOS i know of.
What you are possably missing is a symbolic link in /dev for the modem and
which ever ttySx device, check if it is there with;
ls -al /dev/modem
If it is not pointing to the correct device that could be another reson for
getting the device busy message.
I am sure others who use PPP/modems will comment and try to help you more
when the vger gets things going properly again.
BTW;
This is not the only list where traffice has taken a dramitic drop this
last week.
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Regards Richard
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