> "Amber N. Ferguson" wrote:
>
> I have a question concerning Linux and USR 56k V90 modems. Now I
> have heard a lot of people say. When it comes to that modem trash it,
> it's a PnP modem and you're screwed. There's no way in hell it will
> work in Linux.
>
> On the juxta-position of that I have seen multiple posts in various
> NG and other places in which people say I have done that and it has
> been done, can be done.
>
> Several computer shops locally that I have talked to say, umm yeah
> we do it every day, but that's a shop secret. Pay us $65.00 and we
> can do it. I am like ummm Bull S*** I don't think so. I am sure
> someone can help me concerning this issue.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Amber N. Ferguson
Hi, Amber,
I have a couple of machines with a USR #5687 v.90 internal isa modem.
It works really well under a up kernel, but not an smp kernel. The key
is that I have an older version of this model which has user settable
jumpers for com and irq. I notice that the newer versions don't have
this feature. You can immediately tell whether a model #5687 is new or
old by the shape of the card. The old version is a rectangle, and the
newer version has a corner cut out so it looks like Utah. If you can
get one of the older versions, just set the jumpers to the proper com
and irq for your system, and it'll work well (as long as you're not
running an smp kernel, at least in my experience). If you have the
newer PnP version, did you see this recent posting:
There is a Pnp Howto out there, which I think is very helpful. I have an
ISA internal and I was able to get it work following that howto.
Basically, you need to choose "non plug and play OS" in the BIOS. Then
the
BIOS will configure the serial port for you, instead of leaving it to
the
OS. Then when you start redhat, try to use "setserial /dev/ttyS?" to
figure out whether the modem port is detected.
My internal ISA modem works both in Linux and Solaris 7.
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Fernando Rowies wrote:
> I have a modem 3com/U.S.Robotics 56K FAX INT ISA PnP.
> The information that provides MS-Windows is:
>
> Port COM 3
> IRQ 4
> Address 3E8
> UART NS 16550AN
> Max. Vel. 115 Kbauds
>
> It's not a Winmodem, but is PnP, and I have problems
> to configure it. I try with Control Panel-Modem
> Configuration, RH PPP Dialer and Kppp, with /dev/cua2.
> The last two apology "I cannot found any modem" and
> "Sorry, the modem doesn't respond".
> Even I try with /dev/cua0, /dev/cua1, etc. It appears
> that for this modem doesn't be enough with "the easy
> way".
>
> Anyone can help me to configure it.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Fernando Rowies
> Monte Grande
> Buenos Aires
> Argentina
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