Hylton: I just searched www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html, and all of the Creative internal PCI modems listed there are indeed winmodems for which there is no known cure. There were some Creative ISA modems that were OK, but these appear to be older models (33.6K or slower). While many PCI modems are winmodems, there are real modems, and others are so-called "linmodems" -- modems that can be made to work under Linux with special drivers.
Hold out for a real modem -- preferably an external modem that connects to a serial port. (I understand that some USB modems will work with Linux, but some don't.) It's more money, but well worth it -- at least for a desk top machine. AFAIK, you do have to disable an on-board serial port in the BIOS if you are using an internal modem, be it ISA or PCI. One other lesson (learned the hard way) is that internal Plug-and-Play ISA modems should be jumpered to set a specific com port and IRQ rather than relying on PnP -- otherwise it'll plug, but it probably won't play. HTH, Carroll On Thursday 06 December 2001 06:33 am, Franki wrote: > I think the creative internals are win modems.. but don't quote me on > that.. > > As for the com2 problem, are you runnign out of IRQ's??? I have not heard > of a > modem needing other com ports disabled unless you have run out of spare > IRQ's.. > > as a rule, I always get external serial modems, then there is never any > issue. > > > rgds > > Frank > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Hylton Conacher > (ZR1HPC) > Sent: Thursday, 6 December 2001 3:51 PM > To: Mandrake Linux newbie > Subject: [newbie] conflict between modem and Com 2? > > > I have recently purchased a new machine and have had to take it back to > the store as the modem is giving me hassles. The machine is an AMD > Thunderbird 1Ghz with what I believe, or have been told is, a Creative > modem 56kb/s in it. > > I have paid for the machine but feel that as they knew it was going to > only have Linux (Mdk 8) on it that they should have made sure the > hardware supplied i.e. the modem worked under Linux without having to > disable Com 2. > > Can anyone confirm/deny that the conflict is there? Surely a brand new > machine needn't have part of its hardware, Com 2, disabled for it to > work with a modem? Is the make of the modem the problem i.e. is it a > winmodem or semi winmodem? > > Comments please as I am due to pick up the machine tomorrow or perhaps > later today. > > TIA ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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