Agere Win Modem Not Working, Error "Resource or Device Busy"

[surf...@gmail.com]

When ever I try to connect to the net, either through KInternet or KPPP, I
get the message that the modem is busy. I have an Agere winmodem and have
gotten the drivers from the Linuxant site. The drivers installed without
problem and I now have a /dev/modem file. However, I still get the error.
Surfing on the net, I found out that the IRQ and Port numbers may be the
culprit. So, for the Port and IRQ, here is what I found. Maybe it will mean
something to someone, I can't make out anything...

From lspci -v IRQ = 10, I/0 Port = bc00 AND b800
From setserial /dev/modem IRQ = 0, Port = 0x0000

I tried to change the Port and IRQ with setserial /dev/modem port 0xb800
irq 0x10 but it says that argument is invalid. I also tried giving the
arguments without the '0x', even tried giving only one argument at a time,
but to no avail.

So, how do I get it to run. Any help would be appreciated.

[Mark Robinson]

I would try installing minicom first and running minicom -s (as root) to
set it up for your modem device. See if you can then connect to your
modem and issue ati to see if it responds. If not, then there is a
problem with the setup.
Check in /var/log/messages to see what your device modem is appearing as.
/dev/modem is likely a symlink, and it could be pointing to the wrong
device...

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Mark Robinson
Novell Volunteer SysOp

One by one the penguins steal my sanity...