On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Michael Jordan wrote:
> My pc uses a win modem and I understand to carry out the dial-up
> configuration, I need to do a few tasks before proceeding to configure my
> internet connection.
>
> Can someone explain to me what the steps are? Currently I know my modem
> is a Lucent Win modem, but that is as far as I know for now. What are the
> other pieces of information I need to obtain and what do I do?
I wrote this how for setting up a linmodem for an SME server, which is
based on RedHat 7.0 (or was at the time). You may or may not find it
useful.
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Graeme Robinson - Graenet consulting
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How To Use a Linmodem (winmodem) with Lucent chip under ESSG 4.1.2:
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Intro:
This document isn't recommending the use of winmodems - I only had to because I was
unable to obtain a non-windem for pci install and had no spare external serial ports.
Step 1: check if the modem is a lucent chip:
cat /proc/pci |less
you should see something like:
Bus 2, device 11, function 0:
Communication controller: Lucent (ex-AT&T) Microelectronics L56xMF (rev 1).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 9. Master Capable. No bu
rsts. Min Gnt=252.Max Lat=14.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf5800000 [0xf5800000].
I/O at 0xb000 [0xb001].
I/O at 0xa800 [0xa801].
Step 2: download the lucent module:
http://www.linmodems.org/linux568.zip
unzip it. It will contain the following:
ltuninst
ltinst
ltmodem.o
readme.txt
Step 3:
install it as per the readme.txt
./ltinst
Step 4:
If all goes well the module should install and load. For reasons I'm unsure of
installing the module has been known to induce kernal panic, but the module should
load on reboot - you will see an entry like:
Sep 6 11:04:03 SERVERNAME kernel: ttyS14 at 0xa800 (irq = 9) is a Lucent
Step 5:
The modem should be ready to use now. Run minicom as root
minicom -s
And set the modem to ttyS14
