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Re: SupraExpress 56i problem!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Tue Nov 17 17:46:25 1998
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 17:46:05 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Fran Fabrizio wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Spent all last night setting up a LAN in my home. Figured out
> the IP Masquerading and everything, and it all works -- thru my 14.4 modem.
> So I tried to put my SupraExpress 56i modem in instead, and the machine
> can't find it. I've tried EVERY combination of jumpers for COM2 (old modem
> was on COM2 so I know that's right) with no luck. I then spent two hours
> trying to get isapnptools to find it. It finds it alright, but EVERY
> combination of memory space/IRQ I try, it says Fatal error trying to
> allocate memory space.
Is the motherboard COM2 disabled in the BIOS?
>
>
> Minicom hangs when I try to reach the modem. /proc/ioports shows all
> of the memory that isapnp gives me an option of choosing as in use by
> something called serial (auto). Any ideas what that is? I don't
> think I am dealing with conflicts with other devices, all
> I have is a net card, a modem, a video card, mouse (COM1), and
> keyboard. What is this serial(auto) thing and what am I doing
> wrong?
If you can set the Supra for COM2, does that mean you have
disabled PnP also in the modem? If PnP is disabled, maybe isapnp
is unnecessary or interfering.
Try removing/renaming the config files for isapnp or disabling
it somehow, and treat it as a non PnP modem.
Does the modem have jumpers to disable PnP, set IRQ, and set COM port?
Is it PCI or ISA or PCMCIA.
Does this modem claim to support DOS and OS/2?
Can you run it under Windows as a 'generic internal modem'?
If not, it may be a Winmodem which means 'works only with Windows'.
Jan Carlson
janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Mailed with Netscape 4.5 on Red Hat Linux 5.2
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