On Fri, 04 Aug 2000, mike mcmanus wrote:
> Hi,
> I have just been able to connect to my isp thanks to your helpful
> suggestions. I am on a compaq 486 with an original modem 14400. I added
> a 56k modem some time ago and have been using it for internet connections
> with win95. With Linux I can only get a connection with the 14400. The
> 14400 is on com2 .....the 56k on com4. i've used control panel in linux
> xwindows to set the /dev/modem to cua3 for the 56k and used minicom -s to
> set speed; after saving configuration as df1 and exiting, the screen shows
> 'initializing modem' and then hangs like it can't find the modem. ican
> change back to 14400 modem and reset /dev/modem to cua1, change speed and
> everything works fine. Obviously I would like to use the faster modem.
> Any ideas on how to get the fast modem as the default.
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What kind of modem is your 56K? Is it an internal PCI? Possibly a
"winmodem" and thus, not likely to work in linux.
Mike
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