A few weeks ago, thinking that it would be easy to setup, I bought a PCMCIA
fax modem for my laptop
to use under Linux. I am running SuSE 7.0 with the stock 2.2.16 kernel.
The card is a taiwanese branded 56kps fax modem card and it works fine under
windows. I have read
the PCMCIA HOW-TO, man PCMCIA and other related man pages and the chapter on
PCMCIA cards in the
SuSE manual. As I understand it getting a PCMCIA modem to work should be as
simple as creating an
entry in /etc/pcmcia/config for the card and then configuring it using Yast.
Of course in real life
things aren't like that <grin>.
So far I have tried the following:
Get card information using 'cardctl ident':
Socket 0:
product info: "HCFLCNXT", "1143"
manfid: 0x0013, 0x0000
function: 254 ((null))
Use this information to add the following lines in /etc/pcmcia/config:
card "HCFLCNXT", "1143"
manfid 0x0013, 0x0000
bind "serial_cs"
Then I tried running both Yast and Yast2 to setup the modem. Neither of them
detected the modem. I
think that what I have done so far is correct so I started looking at other
things. Firest step was
to look at the information in WindowsME and I got the following information
from their rather nice
print out of all the hardware settings:
Name Conexant HCF 56K Data Fax PCMCIA Modem
Description Conexant HCF 56K Data Fax PCMCIA Modem
Device ID PCMCIA\HCFLCNXT-1143-CF89\0
Device Type Unknown
Attached To COM5
Answer Mode Not Available
PNP Device ID PCMCIA\HCFLCNXT-1143-CF89\0
Provider Name Conexant