Hardware modem

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 05:50:27PM -0500, Paul DiRezze wrote:
> So I went up to Union Computer today and they convinced me to buy another 
> AOpen modem -- the FM56-PX .  They assured me it would work - no problems.
> 
> Turns out this is a hardware modem but I still can't get it to 
> work.  I  don't know enough about assigning memory addresses and interrupts.
> 
> So now I'm 0 for 2.
> 
> I'm just gonna go get the USR or Gentech tomorrow.
> 
> I gotta say, it really sucks that this should be a simple thing and for 
> Linux it still isn't.
> 
> Thanks to everyone for all the help.

If it is a hardware modem, then you should see another serial port
during boot as ttyS2 or something, or ttyS4, assuming your kernel has
PCI serial support enabled.

It certainly is listed as being DOS/Linux/everything else supported.

What does lspci show for it?

Lennart Sorensen
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