ISA PNP setup
Richard A. Perry, Jr.
I am in desparate need of help setting up my Linux system. I am running
RH5.0, and have downloaded and installed all of the updates in RedHat's
updates directory for RH5. I have sucessfully compiled and installed
the newest stable kernel (2.0.35).
My system:
ASUS P2L97 Motherboard (PnP Bios w/ APM)
Diamond Stealth II S220 (Primary video)
Diamond Monster 3D II (Secondary video)
--Problem devices--
Diamond SupraExpress 56i (modem -- not a winmodem, but a true modem)
PnP
Windows says COM3 (ie /dev/cua2 under Linux)
ISA card
SoundBlaster AWE64 Gold (ISA PnP)
Standard settings from manual tried
Settings Windows says tried but nothing seems to work
Have used ISAPNP and PNPDUMP and have edited the ISAPNP.CONF
file, but I can't seem to initialize my board. Can I use
Creative's board
initializer that runs under DOS with DOSEMU??
Logitech MouseMan+ (PS/2) (not such a problem, standard mouse functions
work fine)
nothing supports the Wheel or the 4th button does it??
Thanks for any help
Richard
Michael S. Briggs
>
Cut...
> Logitech MouseMan+ (PS/2) (not such a problem, standard mouse functions
> work fine)
> nothing supports the Wheel or the 4th button does it??
>
Wheel mice can be setup to work very nicely with most Linux
applications. See the directions Colas Nahaboo gives at his web site:
www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll
Mark Kelly
I copied this from an earlier post. show how to set up plug and play
devices, modem specifically, but same procedure should work for you sound
card.
Matt Bryda wrote:
>
> Hello all!
> I am having a heck of a time getting my modem working with
> Linux.
Well, here's my own very short HOWTO :-)
(you need the isapnp tools)
1. Do a
pnpdump > /root/whatever.txt
2. Edit the file to get the configuration you want. You have to uncomment
the configuration lines and then "(ACT Y)" for each of your PnP
cards.
For example, for my own modem, I uncommented
(IO 0 (BASE 0x03e8))
(INT 0 (IRQ 4 (MODE +E)))
(ACT Y)
Here, we have the relations
i/o 0x3f8 <=> COM1 <=> /dev/cua0 <=> /dev/ttyS0
i/o 0x2f8 <=> COM2 <=> /dev/cua1 <=> /dev/ttyS1
i/o 0x3e8 <=> COM3 <=> /dev/cua2 <=> /dev/ttyS2
i/o 0x2e8 <=> COM4 <=> /dev/cua3 <=> /dev/ttyS3
3. Send the configuration options to your PnP cards with
isapnp /root/whatever.txt
4. Tell setserial to update the device informations with
setserial /dev/cuaX autoconfig
(where X stands for your port, 2 in my case)
5. Check your modem has been recognized with
setserial /dev/cuaX
It should answer something like
/dev/cua2, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 4
If it answers "UART: unknown", it failed to recognize
your modem. In this case, jump to 8
6. Configure Minicom:
minicom -s
Then select "Serial port setup", change "Serial Device"
to your serial device, then select "Exit". Once in minicom,
type "AT" folowed by return, and the modem should answer
"OK".
7. Since you want isapnp to configure your PnP devices upon
startup, copy your final /etc/whatever.txt file to
/etc/isapnp.conf, and check that is gets called at boot time.
On my RedHat, it is called in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. (Just do
a "grep isapnp `find /etc -type f`" to check this out)
If it is not called, append "isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf" to some
of your boot script.
8. If things go wrong:
My way of dealing with this is to go to the bios setup,
desactivate the two serial ports, reboot in linux and
configure things around with isapnp and setserial. The
way it should work is that you configure your modem at
a certain i/o address with isapnp, then you update
your four i/o devices with "setserial /dev/cuaX autoconfig"
(once for each device, you can do a script for that), and
finally, you check if the modem is there with
"setserial -g /dev/cua[0-3]".
Richard A. Perry, Jr. wrote in message
<3633A201...@garnet.acns.fsu.edu>...
>
>I am in desparate need of help setting up my Linux system. I am running
>
>RH5.0, and have downloaded and installed all of the updates in RedHat's
>updates directory for RH5. I have sucessfully compiled and installed
>the newest stable kernel (2.0.35).
>
>My system:
>ASUS P2L97 Motherboard (PnP Bios w/ APM)
>Diamond Stealth II S220 (Primary video)
>Diamond Monster 3D II (Secondary video)
>--Problem devices--
>Diamond SupraExpress 56i (modem -- not a winmodem, but a true modem)
> PnP
> Windows says COM3 (ie /dev/cua2 under Linux)
> ISA card
>SoundBlaster AWE64 Gold (ISA PnP)
> Standard settings from manual tried
> Settings Windows says tried but nothing seems to work
> Have used ISAPNP and PNPDUMP and have edited the ISAPNP.CONF
> file, but I can't seem to initialize my board. Can I use
>Creative's board
> initializer that runs under DOS with DOSEMU??
>Logitech MouseMan+ (PS/2) (not such a problem, standard mouse functions
>work fine)
> nothing supports the Wheel or the 4th button does it??
>
pkngan
I'm a newbie and am VERY DESPARATE, pls. help! I've already read the man
pages but don't really get it. I'm running RH5.1 on a Intel 333MHz machine.
I did a pnpdump > isapnp.conf but I do not know which configuration lines to
uncomment nor modify. I have an Aztech 56K modem and it is set to COM1 irq 4
on windows 95.
The base values returned for (IO 0 (BASE ???????)) does not match any
of those for cua0-cua3. How do I know which COM I should use?
I'm attaching the isapnp.conf file. "Card 1" is for my PnP modem and "Card 2"
is I believe, my sound card.
I'd really appreciate if anyone could help me out on how to uncomment,
edit the configuration lines, or pointers to any other reading material.
Pls. also cc. a copy to me when reply .... just in case I miss it from the
newsgroup. A million thanks in advance.
Regards,
PK
pkn...@nospam.austin360.com
(remove the nospam to email)
# $Id: pnpdump.c,v 1.10 1997/07/14 22:30:47 fox Exp $
# This is free software, see the sources for details.
# This software has NO WARRANTY, use at your OWN RISK
#
# For details of this file format, see isapnp.conf(5)
#
# For latest information on isapnp and pnpdump see:
# http://www.roestock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools/
#
# Compiler flags: -DREALTIME -DNEEDSETSCHEDULER
#
# Trying port address 0203
# Board 1 has serial identifier 0a ff ff ff ff 23 40 54 07
# Board 2 has serial identifier cb 80 86 00 01 30 00 a8 65
# (DEBUG)
(READPORT 0x0203)
(ISOLATE)
(IDENTIFY *)
# Card 1: (serial identifier 0a ff ff ff ff 23 40 54 07)
# AZT4023 Serial No -1 [checksum 0a]
# Version 1.0, Vendor version 0.1
# ANSI string -->AZT4023 PnP MODEM CARD<--
#
# Logical device id AZT4023
#
# Edit the entries below to uncomment out the configuration required.
# Note that only the first value of any range is given, this may be changed if
required
# Don't forget to uncomment the activate (ACT Y) when happy
(CONFIGURE AZT4023/-1 (LD 0
# IRQ 3, 4, 5, 7 or 9.
# High true, edge sensitive interrupt (by default)
# (INT 0 (IRQ 3 (MODE +E)))
# Multiple choice time, choose one only !
# Start dependent functions: priority preferred
# Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
# Minimum IO base address 0x0110
# Maximum IO base address 0x0110
# IO base alignment 16 bytes
# Number of IO addresses required: 8
# (IO 0 (BASE 0x0110))
# Start dependent functions: priority acceptable
# Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
# Minimum IO base address 0x0170
# Maximum IO base address 0x0170
# IO base alignment 16 bytes
# Number of IO addresses required: 8
# (IO 0 (BASE 0x0170))
# Start dependent functions: priority acceptable
# Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
# Minimum IO base address 0x0210
# Maximum IO base address 0x0210
# IO base alignment 16 bytes
# Number of IO addresses required: 8
# (IO 0 (BASE 0x0210))
# Start dependent functions: priority acceptable
# Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
# Minimum IO base address 0x0110
# Maximum IO base address 0x03f0
# IO base alignment 16 bytes
# Number of IO addresses required: 8
# (IO 0 (BASE 0x0110))
# End dependent functions
# (ACT Y)
))
# End tag... Checksum 0x00 (OK)
# Card 2: (serial identifier cb 80 86 00 01 30 00 a8 65)
# YMH0030 Serial No -2138701823 [checksum cb]
# Version 1.0, Vendor version 0.0
# ANSI string -->OPL3-SA3 Snd System<--
#
# Logical device id YMH0021
#
# Edit the entries below to uncomment out the configuration required.
# Note that only the first value of any range is given, this may be changed if
required
# Don't forget to uncomment the activate (ACT Y) when happy
(CONFIGURE YMH0030/-2138701823 (LD 0
# Multiple choice time, choose one only !
# Start dependent functions: priority preferred
# Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
# Minimum IO base address 0x0220
# Maximum IO base address 0x0220
# IO base alignment 16 bytes
# Number of IO addresses required: 16
# (IO 0 (BASE 0x0220))
# Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
# Minimum IO base address 0x0530
# Maximum IO base address 0x0530
# IO base alignment 8 bytes
# Number of IO addresses required: 8
# (IO 1 (BASE 0x0530))
# Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
# Minimum IO base address 0x0388
# Maximum IO base address 0x0388
# IO base alignment 8 bytes
# Number of IO addresses required: 8
# (IO 2 (BASE 0x0388))
# Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
# Minimum IO base address 0x0330
# Maximum IO base address 0x0330
# IO base alignment 2 bytes
# Number of IO addresses required: 2
# (IO 3 (BASE 0x0330))
# Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
# Minimum IO base address 0x0370
# Maximum IO base address 0x0370
# IO base alignment 2 bytes
# Number of IO addresses required: 2
# (IO 4 (BASE 0x0370))
# IRQ 5.
# High true, edge sensitive interrupt
# (INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E)))
# First DMA channel 0.
# 8 bit DMA only
# Logical device is not a bus master
# DMA may execute in count by byte mode
# DMA may not execute in count by word mode
# DMA channel speed type F
# (DMA 0 (CHANNEL 0))
# Next DMA channel 1.
# 8 bit DMA only
# Logical device is not a bus master
# DMA may execute in count by byte mode
# DMA may not execute in count by word mode
# DMA channel speed type F
# (DMA 1 (CHANNEL 1))
# Start dependent functions: priority acceptable
# Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
# Minimum IO base address 0x0240
# Maximum IO base address 0x0240
# IO base alignment 16 bytes
# Number of IO addresses required: 16
# (IO 0 (BASE 0x0240))
# Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
# Minimum IO base address 0x0e80
# Maximum IO base address 0x0e80
# IO base alignment 8 bytes
# Number of IO addresses required: 8
# (IO 1 (BASE 0x0e80))
# Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
# Minimum IO base address 0x0388
# Maximum IO base address 0x0388
# IO base alignment 8 bytes
# Number of IO addresses required: 8
# (IO 2 (BASE 0x0388))
# Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
# Minimum IO base address 0x0300
# Maximum IO base address 0x0300
# IO base alignment 2 bytes
# Number of IO addresses required: 2
# (IO 3 (BASE 0x0300))
# Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
# Minimum IO base address 0x0100
# Maximum IO base address 0x0ffe
# IO base alignment 2 bytes
# Number of IO addresses required: 2
# (IO 4 (BASE 0x0100))
# IRQ 5, 7, 9, 10 or 11.
# High true, edge sensitive interrupt
# (INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E)))
# First DMA channel 0, 1 or 3.
# 8 bit DMA only
# Logical device is not a bus master
# DMA may execute in count by byte mode
# DMA may not execute in count by word mode
# DMA channel speed type F
# (DMA 0 (CHANNEL 0))
# Next DMA channel 0, 1 or 3.
# 8 bit DMA only
# Logical device is not a bus master
# DMA may execute in count by byte mode
# DMA may not execute in count by word mode
# DMA channel speed type F
# (DMA 1 (CHANNEL 0))
# Start dependent functions: priority functional
# Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
# Minimum IO base address 0x0220
# Maximum IO base address 0x0280
# IO base alignment 16 bytes
# Number of IO addresses required: 16
# (IO 0 (BASE 0x0220))
# Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
# Minimum IO base address 0x0530
# Maximum IO base address 0x0f48
# IO base alignment 8 bytes
# Number of IO addresses required: 8
# (IO 1 (BASE 0x0530))
# Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
# Minimum IO base address 0x0388
# Maximum IO base address 0x03f8
# IO base alignment 8 bytes
# Number of IO addresses required: 8
# (IO 2 (BASE 0x0388))
# Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
# Minimum IO base address 0x0300
# Maximum IO base address 0x0334
# IO base alignment 2 bytes
# Number of IO addresses required: 2
# (IO 3 (BASE 0x0300))
# Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
# Minimum IO base address 0x0100
# Maximum IO base address 0x0ffe
# IO base alignment 2 bytes
# Number of IO addresses required: 2
# (IO 4 (BASE 0x0100))
# IRQ 5, 7, 9, 10 or 11.
# High true, edge sensitive interrupt
# (INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E)))
# First DMA channel 0, 1 or 3.
# 8 bit DMA only
# Logical device is not a bus master
# DMA may execute in count by byte mode
# DMA may not execute in count by word mode
# DMA channel speed type F
# (DMA 0 (CHANNEL 0))
# Next DMA channel 0, 1 or 3.
# 8 bit DMA only
# Logical device is not a bus master
# DMA may execute in count by byte mode
# DMA may not execute in count by word mode
# DMA channel speed type F
# (DMA 1 (CHANNEL 0))
# End dependent functions
# (ACT Y)
))
#
# Logical device id YMH0022
#
# Edit the entries below to uncomment out the configuration required.
# Note that only the first value of any range is given, this may be changed if
required
# Don't forget to uncomment the activate (ACT Y) when happy
(CONFIGURE YMH0030/-2138701823 (LD 1
# Compatible device id PNPb02f
# Multiple choice time, choose one only !
# Start dependent functions: priority preferred
# Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
# Minimum IO base address 0x0201
# Maximum IO base address 0x0201
# IO base alignment 1 bytes
# Number of IO addresses required: 1
# (IO 0 (BASE 0x0201))
# Start dependent functions: priority acceptable
# Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
# Minimum IO base address 0x0201
# Maximum IO base address 0x0211
# IO base alignment 16 bytes
# Number of IO addresses required: 1
# (IO 0 (BASE 0x0201))
# End dependent functions
# (ACT Y)
))
# End tag... Checksum 0x00 (OK)
# Returns all cards to the "Wait for Key" state
(WAITFORKEY)
pkngan
I'm a newbie and am VERY DESPARATE, pls. help! I've already read the man
pages but don't really get it. I'm running RH5.1 on a Intel 333MHz machine.
I did a pnpdump > isapnp.conf but I do not know which configuration lines to
uncomment nor modify. I have an Aztech 56K modem and it is set to COM1 irq 4
on windows 95.
The base values returned for (IO 0 (BASE ???????)) does not match any
of those for cua0-cua3. How do I know which COM I should use?
I'm attaching the isapnp.conf file. "Card 1" is for my PnP modem and "Card 2"
is I believe, my sound card.
I'd really appreciate if anyone could help me out on how to uncomment,
edit the configuration lines, or pointers to any other reading material.
Pls. also cc. a copy to me when reply .... just in case I miss it from the
newsgroup. A million thanks in advance.
Regards,
PK
pkn...@austin360.NOSPAM.com
(remove the NOSPAM to email)
pkngan
I'm a newbie and am VERY DESPARATE, pls. help! I've already read the man
pages but don't really get it. I'm running RH5.1 on a Intel 333MHz machine.
I did a pnpdump > isapnp.conf but I do not know which configuration lines to
uncomment nor modify. I have an Aztech 56K modem and it is set to COM1 irq 4
on windows 95.
The base values returned for (IO 0 (BASE ???????)) does not match any
of those for cua0-cua3. How do I know which COM I should use?
I'm attaching the isapnp.conf file. "Card 1" is for my PnP modem and "Card 2"
is I believe, my sound card.
I'd really appreciate if anyone could help me out on how to uncomment,
edit the configuration lines, or pointers to any other reading material.
Pls. also cc. a copy to me when reply .... just in case I miss it from the
newsgroup. A million thanks in advance.
Regards,
PK
NOSPAM...@austin360.com
Richard S. Lumpkin
cards.
pkngan wrote:
# Don't forget to uncomment the activate (ACT Y) when happy
(CONFIGURE AZT4023/-1 (LD 0
# IRQ 3, 4, 5, 7 or 9.
# High true, edge sensitive interrupt (by default)
(INT 0 (IRQ 4 (MODE +E)))
# Multiple choice time, choose one only !
# Start dependent functions: priority preferred
# Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
# Minimum IO base address 0x0110
# Maximum IO base address 0x0110
# IO base alignment 16 bytes
# Number of IO addresses required: 8
(IO 0 (BASE 0x0110))
# Start dependent functions: priority acceptable
# Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
# Minimum IO base address 0x0170
# Maximum IO base address 0x0170
# IO base alignment 16 bytes
# Number of IO addresses required: 8
# (IO 0 (BASE 0x0170))
# Start dependent functions: priority acceptable
# Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
# Minimum IO base address 0x0210
# Maximum IO base address 0x0210
# IO base alignment 16 bytes
# Number of IO addresses required: 8
# (IO 0 (BASE 0x0210))
# Start dependent functions: priority acceptable
# Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
# Minimum IO base address 0x0110
# Maximum IO base address 0x03f0
# IO base alignment 16 bytes
# Number of IO addresses required: 8
# (IO 0 (BASE 0x0110))
# End dependent functions
(ACT Y)
))
# End tag... Checksum 0x00 (OK)
# Returns all cards to the "Wait for Key" state
(WAITFORKEY)
Note the removal of the # (comment character) from the IRQ, IO and ACT
lines and note where the IRQ was 3 in the dump I changed it to 4.
Before choosing 4 run
cat /proc/interrupts to make sure 4 is not in use, if it is pick another
of the options given above and put that number in the appropriate holes.
Then use setserial as
setserial /dev/ttyS0 port 0x011 irq 4
setserial /dev/ttyS0 spd_vhi
once you get it working but the setserial lines into either the
rc.serial or rc.local files which can be found in the /etc directory or
the /etc/rc.d directory depending on your distro.
I hope you have a ps/2 or busmouse because if the mouse is on physical
COM1 it and the modem will act up. If the mouse is on com one pick
another port device in Linux
and another free IRQ.
Also edit a clean copy of the dump on you machine and don't try to cut
and paste this just in case something got scrambled.
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pkngan
. . . . .
> # (DEBUG)
> (READPORT 0x0203)
> (ISOLATE)
> (IDENTIFY *)
>
> # Card 1: (serial identifier 0a ff ff ff ff 23 40 54 07)
> # AZT4023 Serial No -1 [checksum 0a]
> # Version 1.0, Vendor version 0.1
> # ANSI string -->AZT4023 PnP MODEM CARD<--
> #
> # Logical device id AZT4023
> #
> # Edit the entries below to uncomment out the configuration required.
> # Note that only the first value of any range is given, this may be
> changed if
> # Don't forget to uncomment the activate (ACT Y) when happy
>
> (CONFIGURE AZT4023/-1 (LD 0
> # IRQ 3, 4, 5, 7 or 9.
> # High true, edge sensitive interrupt (by default)
> (INT 0 (IRQ 4 (MODE +E)))
>
> # Multiple choice time, choose one only !
>
> # Start dependent functions: priority preferred
> # Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
> # Minimum IO base address 0x0110
> # Maximum IO base address 0x0110
> # IO base alignment 16 bytes
> # Number of IO addresses required: 8
> (IO 0 (BASE 0x0110))
>
> # Start dependent functions: priority acceptable
> # Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
> # Minimum IO base address 0x0170
> # Maximum IO base address 0x0170
> # IO base alignment 16 bytes
> # Number of IO addresses required: 8
> # (IO 0 (BASE 0x0170))
>
> # Start dependent functions: priority acceptable
> # Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
> # Minimum IO base address 0x0210
> # Maximum IO base address 0x0210
> # IO base alignment 16 bytes
> # Number of IO addresses required: 8
> # (IO 0 (BASE 0x0210))
>
> # Start dependent functions: priority acceptable
> # Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
> # Minimum IO base address 0x0110
> # Maximum IO base address 0x03f0
> # IO base alignment 16 bytes
> # Number of IO addresses required: 8
> # (IO 0 (BASE 0x0110))
>
> # End dependent functions
> (ACT Y)
> ))
> # End tag... Checksum 0x00 (OK)
>
> # Returns all cards to the "Wait for Key" state
> (WAITFORKEY)
> Note the removal of the # (comment character) from the IRQ, IO and ACT
> lines and note where the IRQ was 3 in the dump I changed it to 4.
> Before choosing 4 run
>
> cat /proc/interrupts to make sure 4 is not in use, if it is pick another
> of the options given above and put that number in the appropriate holes.
Thanks for your help. I did a cat /proc/interrupts and found nothing
elseis using IRQ 4, so, I followed your suggestions using:
(READPORT 0x0203)
(ISOLATE)
(IDENTIFY *)
(CONFIGURE AZT4023/-1 (LD 0
(INT 0 (IRQ 4 (MODE +E)))
(IO 0 (BASE 0x0110))
(ACT Y)
))
(WAITFORKEY)
> Then use setserial as
>
> setserial /dev/ttyS0 port 0x011 irq 4
> setserial /dev/ttyS0 spd_vhi
>
After entering isapnp > isapnp.conf first and then the 2 setserial
commands above,
I did a setserial /dev/cua0 and setserial /dev/ttyS0 but my uart is still
unknown. So,
I did a setserial /dev/cua0 uart 16550a to force it understand.
Next, I executed my ppp-on script with my /dev/modem pointing to /dev/cua0:
#ppp-on
route del 0.0.0.0
pppd /dev/modem debug crtscts connect 'chat -v "" atdt4274031 "CONNECT"'
with /etc/resolv.conf , /etc/ppp/options and /etc/ppp/pap-secrets
configured as well.
All I can hear is my modem click once (sometimes twice) without actually
dialing anything at all. I immediately did a ps can see that the pppd and
chat
commands in my ppp-on script is being executed. After a while, I did
another
ps but the pppd and chat processes are no longer there. When I did a
cat /var/log/messages, I get these:
Oct 28 22:17:02 localhost pppd[462]: pppd 2.3.3 started by root, uid 0
Oct 28 22:17:03 localhost chat[463]: send (atdt4274031^M)
Oct 28 22:17:04 localhost chat[463]: expect (CONNECT)
Oct 28 22:17:08 localhost kernel: PPP: ppp line discipline successfully
unregistered
Oct 28 22:17:49 localhost chat[463]: alarm
Oct 28 22:17:49 localhost chat[463]: Failed
Oct 28 22:17:49 localhost pppd[462]: Connect script failed
I thought that my scripts were incorrect. So, I took out the Aztech 56k
modem and
put in another USR 28.8 non plug-and-play modem. This time it works, I
was able to to connect to my ISP (IBM.NET), thus, proving that my scripts
were correct. Now, I'm suspecting that my modem could be a winmodem. How
can I find out if it's a winmodem? The modem came with my computer
system(NEC Intel 333MHz) and the limited documentation did not tell much.
I think the modem is also one of those voice modem because it has a cable
link to the
sound card. I'm beginning to hate Aztech stuff because I also ran into
some
modem/sound card problem with my very old and lousy Packard Bell.
> once you get it working but the setserial lines into either the
> rc.serial or rc.local files which can be found in the /etc directory or
> the /etc/rc.d directory depending on your distro.
>
> I hope you have a ps/2 or busmouse because if the mouse is on physical
> COM1 it and the modem will act up. If the mouse is on com one pick
> another port device in Linux
> and another free IRQ.
Yes, mine is a ps/2 mouse. One thing I forgot to mention is that
I've also disabled the 2 serial ports on the bios setup when configurating.
I'm running out of Ideas on what to do next. Any ideas? Do you think
it's a winmodem? and how can you tell if you have one?
Once again, thank alot!
Richard S. Lumpkin
>
> I'm running out of Ideas on what to do next. Any ideas? Do you think
> it's a winmodem? and how can you tell if you have one?
The fact the modem does anything is a hopeful sign that it isn't a
winmodem. To determine if it is find the model number and check the
aztech site:
Http://www.aztechlabs.com/aztfiles.html
if you can't find the info email them and ask if that model is a
winmodem (aka software modem) or a hardware modem. If the modem is
responding to any commands, it is likely that you need a good
initialization string for it. As far as that goes, I can't tell you
because it varies from modem to modem. If you wind up emailing aztech
ask them for that info too. Sorry about the problems, it would be nice
if the manufacturers would apply some level of interface consistency.