Before we spend any time on the details here, you should make sure that your
56K modem works with Linux. Many do not (so-called "winmodems"). Look your
make and model up at the canonical modems-and-Linux site:
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
If it is listed there as working with Linux, please post again, including
the modem brand and, under Windows, what IRQ and IO base port it uses.
At 11:41 PM 8/3/00 -0700, mike mcmanus wrote:
>Hi,
>I have just been able to connect to my isp thanks to your helpful
>suggestions. I am on a compaq 486 with an original modem 14400. I added
>a 56k modem some time ago and have been using it for internet connections
>with win95. With Linux I can only get a connection with the 14400. The
>14400 is on com2 .....the 56k on com4. i've used control panel in linux
>xwindows to set the /dev/modem to cua3 for the 56k and used minicom -s to
>set speed; after saving configuration as df1 and exiting, the screen shows
>'initializing modem' and then hangs like it can't find the modem. ican
>change back to 14400 modem and reset /dev/modem to cua1, change speed and
>everything works fine. Obviously I would like to use the faster modem.
>Any ideas on how to get the fast modem as the default.
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