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Re: Modem Troubles
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Statux)
Tue Oct 20 15:52:00 1998
Reply-To: "Statux" <statux@bigfoot.com>
From: "Statux" <statux@bigfoot.com>
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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 20:49:57 +0100
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comm 4, irq 3.. not 5. 5 is sound card (generally).
Also, comm 4 is generally seen as a port used by a Winmodem.
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Bell <whoever@serv.net>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Tuesday, October 20, 1998 6:46 PM
Subject: Modem Troubles
>Hi, I have a US Robotics 56k Internal Data/Fax Modem, which doesnt appear
to
>be on your incompatible hardware list so heres my question. I'm a linux
>newbie so I have little idea what I should do to solve this. Im trying to
>setup a ppp-dialup connection to my local isp. So i set my modem com port
as
>/dev/cua3 (com4) from the modem config control panel. Then I goto setup my
>ppp connection in the network configurator and I set the modem as
>/dev/modem and do all the other necessary stuff like phone # login, pass,
>nameservers etc. I click the activate button and nothing happens, I dont
>even hear my modem click on. My modem is not set to plug and play, I
>manually configured it with jumpers to com 4 and irq 5. The modem works
fine
>in windows (still set manually with jumpers no pnp crap). So what am I
doing
>wrong is there something im not doing. Oh yea I'll add in one more weird
>quirk that happened. A few weeks ago I installed RedHat off the internet
>before i purchased it at a retail store, and the modem worked fine. I didnt
>even turn the plug and play settings off and it worked great right out of
>the hole. I ran netscape and surfed the web for awhile. Unfortunately my
>hard drive crashed and I could not stick with my original ftp install :(.
>
>Thanks,
>Matt Bell
>whoever@serv.net
>
>
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