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...