Just as a precaution make sure Com2 is diabled under the BIOS then boot into
Windows and check the resources that the modem is using...are they the standard
Com2 resources ie IRQ3, 3f8, is it UART16550 or something else...I found my
modem uses slightly different settings and had to manually configure my
rc.serial file...let us know
PHIL
Guillermo Belli wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> Last Sunday I installed Mandrake 5.3 on the computer of a friend of mine.
> Everything was fine, everything worked as expected, except for the modem.
> Under Windoze it is connected to com2 (that is ttyS1), so I tryed the same
> setting under Linux, but didn't work. Then I tryed ttyS2 and ttyS3, as well as
> cua1 to cua3, but still the same message: the modem is not responding. It is a
> Boca Research model MV.34AI 28.8kbps ISA. Is it possible that this is a
> winmodem? As I understand, just PCI modems are winmodems. Under windoze a
> "modem port" must be installed for the modem to work (drivers for this are on
> the modem instalation disk), and this "modem port" is connected, as I said
> bfore, to com2. Then you can install the drivers for the modem. I've never seen
> something like that before. Any ideas?
>
> thanks
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Philip C. Hewitt II
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