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Re: modem problems

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Drew Bartorillo)
Wed Oct 30 08:02:44 1996

Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 08:01:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Drew Bartorillo <drewbart@erols.com>
To: Tom Wike <t-wike@ti.com>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199610281630.KAA20889@alfred.itg.ti.com>
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On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Tom Wike wrote:

> First my redhat is off to the people at RedHat for the fine job done
> on 4.0. 
> 
> My problem is with my modem, SupraExpress 28.8i PNP - Linux does not
> see it - I was wondering what, if anything, I can do short of
> replacing it with a modem with both DOS settings and PNP capabilities??
> All other devices are working ok - cdrom (IDE), SB16 Pro sound card,
> Miro video card (Xfree86). At boot time Linux nevers sees more that
> the 1 serial port which is being used for my mouse (COM1). The modem
> is configured (in Win95) as IRQ 3 using COM2 and of course works under
> Win95. 
> 
> -- 
>   Tom Wike                      Email: t-wike@ti.com 

I initially had the same problem as you. Did you add the symbolic link for
modem to cua1? My RedHat 4.0 installation completely ignored installing
the modem, unlike 3.x which did it correctly. After adding the "missing
link", all went well.

--Drew--



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