On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 16:12 -0800, Simon Roberts wrote:
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OK, I disabled the onboard serial using the BIOS setup. Now none of the serial
From: Carlos E. R.
... 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?
I'm reading late the thread, but what I was going to suggest: " hwinfo - --modem" finds and report on the modem. In your case, it would have reported the port if it existed.
And yes, you need drivers. I have no idea which, sorry: if I find one of those modems it goes out the way it went in. I don't want any softmodem near me.
Well, as you have real serial ports in your machine, I would try getting an external modem via serial port. They work (almost) always.
Bleargh, I think you're right. I loaded the "softmodem" stuff that I found in the distro, and it says that it doesn't support FAX functionality, so I guess--since that's all I wanted to do with this thing anyway--I'll have to give up until I can find a nice cheap external FAX modem
You can buy a driver module for certain fax/modems from the originators of the softmodem driver, last time I looked the pay for one had fax capabilities.
Look out Craigslist, here I come :)
(Anyone in the Denver area want to get rid of an external faxmodem?)
Cheers, Simon
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