Sounds like it's a WinModem to me. On Sat, 02 Jan 1999 11:39:05 -0500, Idris S Hamid wrote: >Happy New Year, everyone. > >Fabio Coatti wrote: > >> >> > > You should see 2 serial ports... >> > >> > Well, I only have one serial port being recognized during bootup: >> > tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A . >> > >> > I believe that this corresponds to COM1. Could this be the source of my >> > problems? I ran `make xconfig' which, under `Character devices', listed >> > `Standard/generic serial support' for ALL standard serial ports as being loaded >> > as a single driver. So why does Linux only recognize one of my serial ports? >> > >> >> This is a strange thing... > >Another strange thing: under W95, only 1 serial port (0x03f8) is recognized upon >bootup. The W95 Control Panel, under >System/Device Manager/Ports (COM&LPT) lists only COM1 and LPT1 as present. Yet under >System/Device Manager/Modem the modem is said to >be installed on COM2. And the modem works fine on W95. So there is something going on >independent of the operating system. Of course, >this does not explain why the modem works under windows, so I am no longer convinced >that this is the problem under Linux. > >Sigh. And I had so many Linux/KDE plans for the holidays... > >Thanks for your present and future help. >Idris >
