Hello, guys!
Thank you all for helping me! My modem is working. I think the problem
was that bios was set for a 'pnp aware OS'. Thanks again!
With best wishes,
Sergey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tuesday, June 20, 2000, 2:39:05 AM, you wrote:
RO> "... doesn't seem to be working" is not a very technical description of your
RO> problem, so I can only give you general advice.
RO> 1. Is the modem a real modem or a Winmodem? Check by looking it up at
RO> http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html . If it is a real modem, continue
RO> on; if it is not, get one -- Linux can't use Winmodems (except for the
RO> Lucent ones, as documented at the preceding URL.
RO> 2. Do you have your computer's BIOS set for non-PnP OS? I'm guessing not,
RO> since you say *Windows* assigns the IRQ and IO to the modem. Change this
RO> BIOS setting and see if it helps.
RO> 3. When you use setserial, don't try to set the UART type by hand. Just set
RO> the IO and IRQ, then see if a setserial probe (e.g., "setserial /dev/ttyS2"
RO> reports a UART type. This is a good, quick text of whether it is actually
RO> finding anything on the device.
RO> 4. If none of this proves to be the answer, explain "The modem still doesn't
RO> seem to be working" more clearly in your followup. What program are you
RO> trying? Is the synlink /dev/modem pointing to /dev/ttyS2? And so on.
RO> A couple of general comments:
RO> RH 5.2 is pretty old, probably full of exploitable security holes.
RO> The current version is 6.2, and it has a large number of updates itself.
RO> for genreal information, look to the HowTos, FAQs, and such at the
RO> Linux Documentation Project, http://www.linuxdoc.org/ .
RO> At 11:18 PM 6/19/00 +0400, Sergey Yepifanov wrote:
>>Hello, guys!
>>
>>I am absolutely new to Linux. Actually I have just installed Linux Red
>>Hat 5.2 and read only the Installation guide and serial-HOWTO. Not
>>much. So, due to the lack of knowledge I am experiencing some certain
>>problems with setting up my modem.
>>
>>By the way, I don't have any docummentation to the modem either.
>>Windows 95 allocates it as MF3850-U(A) Modem (AZT 4030) and sets it on
>>COM3, interrupt 9, port 3E8, UART: NS 16550AN.
>>
>>Tough situation. The only thing I have managed to do is to run
>>setserial /dev/ttyS2 uart 16550A irq 9 port 0x3E8
>>The modem still doesn't seem to be working.
>>
>>What else can I do and what other programs are there to set up modems?
>>Even if you cannot help me, please, give me the documentations where I
>>can possibly find the answers.
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