[2737] in RedHat Linux List
Re: PPP and Supra 288i
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Wike)
Tue Nov 5 09:22:17 1996
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 08:15:51 -0600
From: Tom Wike <twik@kh1.rtc.sc.ti.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Cc: tjr@myriad.com
In-Reply-To: <199611050845.AAA21362@rho.ben2.ucla.edu>
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Kirill, Here is what I did:
All,
Thanks for all of the responses to my problem - the fix for me was to
use the isapnptools found at:
http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/pnp/
I just followed the instructions for these tools and now my modem is
working. I added to the file /etc/rc.local:
/sbin/isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
setserial /dev/modem uart 16550A
the first line is from the isapnptools and tells the system about my
modem - the next line is to tell the system that the modem has access
to a 16550A UART - when I ran the command 'setserial /dev/modem -a'
it showed that it did not know the modem had access to a UART - I have
used the program seyon to dial into work and read my mail - now to get
ppp dialup to work. :)
> On Mon, 28 Oct 1996 10:30:27 -0600 Tom Wike <twik@kh1.rtc.sc.ti.com>
> writes:
> >All,
> >
> >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.
> >
> >My system config:
> >486DX100
> >32 Meg
> >2 1.2 Gig drives
> >NCR cdrom
> >SB16 Pro sound card
> >SupraExpress 28.8i PNP modem
> >Miro20sd 2Meg ram video card (PCI)
> >
> >Thanks.
Kirill Shtengel writes:
>
> > Subject: PPP and Supra 288i
>
> > If any of you brillant Linux hacks has gotten PPP to work with
> > a Supra 288i PnP internal modem could you please give me the magic
> > and save me some headaches.
>
> I do use the Supra 288i PnP internal modem without much headaches.
> It's main problem is PnP. Now, there are some Linux solutions for
> that, but I never tried one.
> But since PnP is well supported in DOS, I boot DOS first, let it
> configure the modem and do a warm reboot into Linux.
> There is only one trick.
> First time you boot DOS, take a note of the IRQ that it assigns to
> the modem (15 in my case), and then use "setserial" in Linux to set
> this value. Unfortunately Linux forgets is every time it reboots, so
> I had to put "setserial /dev/modem irq 15 spd_vhi" into the root
> .bash_profile file - you have to be a root in order to use PPP anyways.
> spd_vhi is the compression option that allows you to pump up the connection
> speed up to 115200 - if the opposite side supports it, of course.
> Probably a better Idea would to include this string into one of the initscripts,
> but I haven't given it much thought since it works just fine the way it is.
> Hope it will work for you, provided that you run MS-DOS.
> Good luck,
> Kiril Shtengel
>
>
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