Hardware modem

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 06:02:50PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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?

Also: Make sure 'PnP OS Installed' is OFF in the bios, or PCI/PnP
hardware won't get initialized correctly by the BIOS, and Linux doesn't
always do it right either.  PnP OS = Windows wants to control
everything.

Lennart Sorensen
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