[102118] in RedHat Linux List
Re:RE: Newbie Modem Questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Dunlap)
Tue Dec 1 14:32:55 1998
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 11:32:08 -0800
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From: Marshall Dunlap <gort@seanet.com>
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From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
Is the modem PCI or ISA?
>>>>>ISA<<<<<<
Plug and Play?
>>>>Disabled<<<<<
Winmodem?
>>>>>>Nope<<<<<<<
Does it have COM, IRQ and disable-PNP jumpers?
>>>>>Yes and thank you for asking this. Many times having the right
question will give us the answer.<<<<<<<<
Do you have docs for it?
>>>>>>>>No, but I did get some stuff off the 'net<<<<<<<<<<
Do the docs/web site say it supports DOS, OS/2, Linux or Unix?
>>>>>>>>>>No mention of anything but windows but as 95% of all modems are
Hayes compatible I am hoping mine is and that this won't be an
issue.<<<<<<<<<<
Here are the standard PC serial port assignments:
COM1 io 0x3F8 irq 4
COM2 io 0x2F8 irq 3
COM3 io 0x3E8 irq 4
COM4 io 0x2E8 irq 3
>>>>>>>>>Very handy reference material. Thanks!<<<<<<<<<<<
aic7xxx is a scsi controler - can you switch that to 10 or 11,
to free up irq3?
>>>>>>>>I couldn't see any way to do this. However, as I aluded to above,
I COULD change the IRQ on the modem via jumpers. The COM port is controled
by a different set of jumpers so I now have COM2 and IRQ5. I haven't tried
it yet but I wanted to respond to your questions before unpluging my
monitor and using it for the Linux box.<<<<<<<<<<
If so you could configure the modem for COM2 or COM4,
after disabling COM2 and COM4 in the machine's BIOS.
Right now, COM2 may be enabled - it should be disabled in the BIOS,
unless you are using the builtin COM2 for something.
>>>>>>>It was diabled in the BIOS<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
It is finding something at IRQ3 and4, and the io port 2f8 = com2,
which could be the modem, or the builtin com2. Check the bios,
and see what the modem jumpers are set for.
>>>>>>>>>I think it is finding the modem on COM2 because that's what the
jumpers are set at.<<<<<<<<<<
Linuxconf can also set up uucp scripts for you...
>>>>>>>>Thanks for the tip. I will check it out. The UUCP scripts didn't
seem that complicated. I got them out of LINUX NETWORK ADMINISTRATORS
GUIDE OLAF KIRCH, I hope I am reading it correctly. They seem almost
TOO easy.
>
Thank you again. I'll let you know if it works out.
md
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