It seems that I am to be the doomsayer of Diamond modems. Folks, if you plan on using Linux, don't buy one! You weren't very specific about your modem. Some of the older Diamond Supra modems are actually accessible to Linux, but it's not easy to set them up. The newer PCI modems are memory-mapped. That means that they don't use an ioport to do serial communications (like the rest of the world). The drivers are proprietary. The Supra Express series is implemented all in hardware, so it may not be too hard to write a driver for them -- though it still hasn't been done. The SupraMax is a controllerless modem -- that means that everything except the DSP is on the board, and the driver handles all of the raw data at the CPU. This would require a much more extensive Linux driver. I've contacted Diamond about getting some specs, but they haven't responded (I don't expect much). Anyway, I hope that your modem is one of the older ones mentioned before. Otherwise...
Joe P.S. You can search the debian-user archive for previous discussions of this subject. You're the third or fourth person I've told about this problem. > I am a new Linux User. I need Help! > I am having Problems Setting up My Supra 56k PNP PCI modem with Debian. I > can install the Base System from Floppy Fine. When I Tryed to connect to my > ISP it told me that /usr/bin/pon: /usr/sbin/pppd: Permission denied. So I > read the install manual and it told me to change config files for ppp. I did > that and it still does not work. It just sits there doing nothing. No > messages at all. When I checked to see if it was connected it was not. When > I reboot and watch the screens of info go by I see one that says > Initializing Com Ports... FAILED > Manually Configuring Com Ports... Success. It tells info on the com ports > that are set up on my computer. Is there a way to check and see if debain > Has found my modem? I Had Problems in Windows 95 as well. I had to move the > modem to a new PCI Port before it found the modem. I am running a P150 > clone with 64MB of RAM. > Any help would be greatly appreciated! >
