Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2773 mails)

[Martijn.van.den.Burg@xxxxxxx (Martijn van den Burg)]

Hi,

Roman Shakin wrote:
> 
> Well i tried that and what i got was 16550A
> 
> So what i am going to do is just buy a new modem for my linuxbox, any idea
> what kind should i get.
> 

Check out http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html for starters. It has
a long list with modems and winmodems. I myself prefer external modems
because they can be reset easily and seem to work most often.

> On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Martijn van den Burg wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Roman Shakin wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all SuSE Users
> > >
> > > I have a problem with my isa pnp modem. I have a PNP ISA 56k flex
> > > fax/voice modem on
> > > /dev/ttyS1, and that points by default to /dev/modem, but when i try to
> > > execute minicom
> > > it dosn't detect my modem and when i do wvdial it gives me this
> > > --> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.20
> > > --> Initializing modem.
> > > --> Sending: ATZ
> > > --> Modem not responding.
> > > My question is what am i doing wrong and how do i make it work with
> > > minicom or wvdial so
> > > so it actualy dial's. I am runing SuSE 6.2 on
> > >
> > > If any one can help me with this i will be greatfull. Thanx In Advance
> > >
> >
> > Just guessing, but does your Linux install recognize the serial port
> > correctly? I have a similar problem: my system does not set the UART
> > type for the serial port correctly. Consequently I could not dial out
> > (the modem did not respond). Changing the UART from 'unknown' to
> > '16550A' by hand (using setserial) solves the problem.
> >
> > As root do a 'setserial -a /dev/ttyS1' and see if it reports the UART
> > correctly.
> > For more info: 'man setserial'.
> >
> > Of course if everything worked with a previous modem this should not be
> > the problem.
> >
> > >                                                         Roman Shakin
> > >
> > > (rshakin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
> > >                                                         Irvine CA USA
> > >
> > > PS: Did any one ever tried Freei in linux?
> > >
> >
> > I didn't do it, nobody saw me doing it, you can't prove anything ;)
> >
> >
> > Bye,
> >
> > Martijn
> >
> > --

Martijn


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