According to Gerry Mullins: While burning my CPU.
>
> Hi all,
>
> Kent Robotti's excellent DOSLINUX distribution fits my needs and system
> perfectly! (are you waiting for me to say, "except for one little thing"?
>
> Well, except for one little thing: I have a Lucent Technologies Win
> Modem (yes, its PnP), that I cant seem to successfully configure. I've
> tried the pnpdump, and isapnp utilities as described in the docs, and even
> downloaded the DOS Intel ICU utility to do it from DOS before I boot linux.
> No dice.
>
> In the first instance isapnp stops all configuration during boot when it
> has a problem with LP1
>
> In the second instance ICU finds the modem and configures is
> (aparently), I boot linux, and run termite which closes with the error
> message that it cant access the 2nd device. A quick "modem -c atz
> /dev/modem" gets a fresh command line after I hit return, but no OK message
> from the modem.
>
> I'm on an IBM Aptiva 2040 L71 300Mhz Pentium II with 64MB RAM, the modem
> is:
> LT Win Modem
> IRQ: 04
> I/O: 03F8h-03FFh
> I/O: 0100h-0107h
> DMA: 07
> DMA: 06
> ( I suspect dual DMA channels because it is also a voice modem)
> Drivers
> c:\windows\system\ltmodem.vxd
> c:\windows\system\ltcom.vxd
> c:\windows\system\ltvcd.vxd
> c:\windows\system\ltdsvd.dll
>
> I know that you Gurus are probably overwhelmed with requests for help,
> but any assistance that any of you can render would be ENORMOUSLY
> appreciated!
Winmodems are for Windows, they wont even work with NT, let alone linux, so
the answer is clear, you have a modem you cant use under linux or NT.
As to a possable question about "will winmodems be supported soon under
linux", looks like the answer will be no and maybe never as the
manufacturers will not release any chip spesifications, which are needed
to write a driver for linux.
You may however see some sort of hacked driver appier for linux, but the
chances of it getting into the main stream kernel would be very small
indeed.
Source of information. 'Linux-Kernel-Mailing list'
>
> Thanks, Gerry
>
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Regards Richard.
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