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From: Simon Roberts
From: Per Jessen To: opensuse@opensuse.org Sent: Wednesday, January 7, 2009 12:41:18 PM Subject: Re: [opensuse] Finding a modem
Per Jessen wrote:
Simon Roberts wrote:
Did you try altering the baudrate?
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/Per Jessen, Zürich
Yeah, tried the "obvious" ones, wanted to avoid trying all the permutations of this stuff since there are too many!
Just try varying the baudrates, all the way from 300 and up. Never mind bits and parity. (the default is almost always 8bit and no parity anyway).
Uh, I should also have asked - is it an ISA or a PCI card? For the former, you may well need jumpering, special config utility or isapnp.
It is a PCI, albeit an old one. I've dug out another from my scrap heap and am currently trying that.... fingers crossed!
OK, I disabled the onboard serial using the BIOS setup. Now none of the serial ports report settings from stty. Now /dev/ttyS[0123] _all_ report Input/Output error, so that's clearly not a report indicating that a half-cocked device has been found. I guess that's a step forward. Meanwhile, hwinfo reports a product: '56K WinModem' or 'LT WinModem 56K Data + FAX' -- Is that one of those dreadful things that isn't really a device, and has to have proprietary drivers to work? Do I need to install a kernel module to drive it? Or should it go in the trash? Thanks again, Simon "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." — Naguib Mahfouz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org