> " I have an internal USR modem that goofed up when I would > dual-boot. > " Win95 would screw it up so that it would not work under > Linux. > "*No* initialization string would fix this; I had to power off the > machine to " properly reset it."
I have an internal USR modem that had *no* problems with dual-booting. Quite simply, it always worked. I still say the original poster's problem is related to PnP. The modem ships from the factory in PnP mode and when used with Windows (and additionally if the BIOS is set for a PnP O/S), it will be assigned whatever free IRQs and COM ports are available. A "soft" boot, i.e. rebooting into Linux likely doesn't "reset" the modem and it keeps these odd settings. In my case, I disable PnP and use the jumpers to assign the modem to COM2, IRQ3. Since that IRQ is the "normal" one for that COM port (or TTYS1, I think), linux finds it just fine. Regards Hall
