I have an existing 100mhz 48mb ram suse 8.0 machine with an isa usr 56k modem. all works fine-using it now. I just bought a 1.2ghz motherboard, 256mb ram, installed suse 8.2 pro. runs fine, but: when I moved the isa usr modem to the new board, suse cannot find the modem. I set the irq to 3, com to 1, used the ln -s /dev/ttyS0 modem command to create the link, no help. I disabled the com2 on the mb and tried it, changing the device link and the jumpers on the modem, no help. using wvdial I get the modem not responding error. I have tried multiple com/irq tries, checking with the setserial -g command. my concern is the buss speed is too great for the isa modem. I also tried a new usr pci modem (not a win, per the dealer), no jumpers, windows only driver disk. suse cannot find it either. John Sowden American Sentry Systems. Inc. 1221 Andersen Drive San Rafael, CA 94901 U.L. Listed Central Station Alarm Service Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1967 mail@americansentry.net http://www.americansentry.net
You have my sympathies, I have just wasted far too long getting an old PC running. I belive my problem was plug n play bios related. I would try and turn off enough of the clever bits in the bios to allow the old card to work undisturbed. I have no idea about the new modem, but try posting details of make model and error messages and some one may know. David On Friday 12 September 2003 5:41 pm, John Sowden wrote:
I have an existing 100mhz 48mb ram suse 8.0 machine with an isa usr 56k modem. all works fine-using it now.
I just bought a 1.2ghz motherboard, 256mb ram, installed suse 8.2 pro. runs fine, but: when I moved the isa usr modem to the new board, suse cannot find the modem. I set the irq to 3, com to 1, used the ln -s /dev/ttyS0 modem command to create the link, no help. I disabled the com2 on the mb and tried it, changing the device link and the jumpers on the modem, no help. using wvdial I get the modem not responding error. I have tried multiple com/irq tries, checking with the setserial -g command. my concern is the buss speed is too great for the isa modem.
I also tried a new usr pci modem (not a win, per the dealer), no jumpers, windows only driver disk. suse cannot find it either.
John Sowden American Sentry Systems. Inc. 1221 Andersen Drive San Rafael, CA 94901
U.L. Listed Central Station Alarm Service Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1967
mail@americansentry.net http://www.americansentry.net
On Friday 12 September 2003 12:41 pm, John Sowden wrote:
I have an existing 100mhz 48mb ram suse 8.0 machine with an isa usr 56k modem. all works fine-using it now.
I just bought a 1.2ghz motherboard, 256mb ram, installed suse 8.2 pro. runs fine, but: when I moved the isa usr modem to the new board, suse cannot find the modem. I set the irq to 3, com to 1, used the ln -s /dev/ttyS0 modem command to create the link, no help. I disabled the com2 on the mb and tried it, changing the device link and the jumpers on the modem, no help. using wvdial I get the modem not responding error. I have tried multiple com/irq tries, checking with the setserial -g command. my concern is the buss speed is too great for the isa modem.
I also tried a new usr pci modem (not a win, per the dealer), no jumpers, windows only driver disk. suse cannot find it either.
John Sowden =====================
John, Did you perchance set the mobo bios setting to PNP OS=NO or is it default to Yes? It should be NO as this allows the motherboard to assign IRQs and such, so the software doesn't have too. Just about all of SuSE's manuals specifies to set it at no. No reason a good PCI modem should not have been seen. I have used USRobotics, ActionTec and Zoom internals with no problems, although I still prefer and recommend an external for best performance and certainty of getting a hardware model. There are some software/win externals too. After fixing the bios, boot up and go into YaST2 to setup the modem, should work. Darn IRQs, why in the world are we still having to deal with such archaic things in the 21st century? Pat -- --- KMail v1.5.3-3 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...
On Friday 12 September 2003 12:41 pm, John Sowden wrote:
suse cannot find the modem.
I also tried a new usr pci modem (not a win, per the dealer), no jumpers, windows only driver disk. suse cannot find it either.
If Yast does not detect the modem, there is a chance that wvdialconf will see it. If not, the error messages might be interesting. As root, run: wvdialconf tmp Before thrashing the created tmp file, check that it's contents correspond to the settings in /etc/wvdial.conf. S.H.
John Sowden wrote:
I have an existing 100mhz 48mb ram suse 8.0 machine with an isa usr 56k modem. all works fine-using it now.
I just bought a 1.2ghz motherboard, 256mb ram, installed suse 8.2 pro. runs fine, but: when I moved the isa usr modem to the new board, suse cannot find the modem. I set the irq to 3, com to 1, used the ln -s /dev/ttyS0 modem command to create the link, no help. I disabled the com2 on the mb and tried it, changing the device link and the jumpers on the modem, no help. using wvdial I get the modem not responding error. I have tried multiple com/irq tries, checking with the setserial -g command. my concern is the buss speed is too great for the isa modem.
I also tried a new usr pci modem (not a win, per the dealer), no jumpers, windows only driver disk. suse cannot find it either.
John Sowden American Sentry Systems. Inc. 1221 Andersen Drive San Rafael, CA 94901
U.L. Listed Central Station Alarm Service Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1967
mail@americansentry.net http://www.americansentry.net
I see a possible error - Com1 = IRQ 4, Com2 = IRQ 3 then ttyS0 = IRQ 4 not 3. Also make sure that you do not have a device on the same IRQ with your modem. Confirm the the bios setting is not on the same IRQ as your modem if you have 2 COM ports -- 73 de Donn Washburn __ " http://www.hal-pc.org/~n5xwb " Ham Callsign N5XWB / / __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 307 Savoy St. / /__ / / / \/ / / /_/ / \ \/ / Sugar Land, TX 77478 /_____/ /_/ /_/\__/ /_____/ /_/\_\ LL# 1.281.242.3256 a MSDOS Virus "Free Zone" OS Email: n5xwb@hal-pc.org Info: http://www.knoppix.net
If the new PCI modem from USR states that it has Linux support on the box, then it is probably the controller based model that has been out for about two years. The "lspci" command should report it as a model 5610. It is normally detected by 2.4 kernels as /dev/ttyS4. BTW: This modem works great under every recent distribution of Linux I have used. On Friday 12 September 2003 12:41, John Sowden wrote:
I have an existing 100mhz 48mb ram suse 8.0 machine with an isa usr 56k modem. all works fine-using it now.
I just bought a 1.2ghz motherboard, 256mb ram, installed suse 8.2 pro. runs fine, but: when I moved the isa usr modem to the new board, suse cannot find the modem. I set the irq to 3, com to 1, used the ln -s /dev/ttyS0 modem command to create the link, no help. I disabled the com2 on the mb and tried it, changing the device link and the jumpers on the modem, no help. using wvdial I get the modem not responding error. I have tried multiple com/irq tries, checking with the setserial -g command. my concern is the buss speed is too great for the isa modem.
I also tried a new usr pci modem (not a win, per the dealer), no jumpers, windows only driver disk. suse cannot find it either.
John Sowden American Sentry Systems. Inc. 1221 Andersen Drive San Rafael, CA 94901
U.L. Listed Central Station Alarm Service Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1967
mail@americansentry.net http://www.americansentry.net
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