On Saturday July 24 2004 10:08 am, Basil Chupin wrote:
Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Fred Miller wrote:
I didn't expect to have to get 9.0 pro. running on an "old" box with a USRobotics PCI winmodem. 'Anyone care to tell me how to get it to work? 9.0 doesn't even see the modem.
Hi Fred,
Unfortunately it is the fact that the item is PCI that will cause the most problems. When I had to check if my ISA USR winmodem was compatible with linux I had to physically test each tty option in the modem setup in order for it to be assigned the right IRQ and actually work. The problem with PCI is that each rail is assigned a IRQ and finding that IRQ, which is not normally written anywhere, entails a similar process to the one I described above for ISA modems.
Good luck and let us know what your final solution is.
I couldn't get 9.0 to see it on any port.....NADA.
Every PCI internal modem I'd had was always configured by default to be on Com3 (unless there was the means to set it to whatever COM via jumpers [I had such a modem]). I wonder if I was just "lucky" that they were all set to COM3.
The other thing is that in the BIOS there ought to be a setting - which I have always wondered about as to why it's there - where you assign the IRQ to the modem.
That wasn't in the setup. I got tired of the nonsense, and since the 'puter was given to my son, I had an external URR modem that I hadn't used in sometime and have forgotten about. I rummaged through my "stash" of parts and found it......timely find. 9.0 did see it instantly on bootup and had him online in mins. Winmodems ought to be outlawed. :) Fred -- "Ballmer is no more designed for the art of persuasion than the Abrams tank is for delivering meals on wheels."