from the disheveled desktop of iggy: let me guess... it was an internal pci fax/modem (not voice). i went through the exact same hassles less than a month ago. after bashing my head repeatedly, i exchanged it for an external USR (they can't @#^% that one up). ain't had a problem since.
On Thursday 11 July 2002 12:10 am, you wrote: > Hi all, > > I have Mandrake 8.1 installed and am using KDE. I bought what I thought was > a Linux-compatible modem (it says so on the damn box), yet when I try to > install in Hardrake it shows the correct modem id but won't configure it as > it says it's a Winmodem. I'm a bit ticked by that, but anyway.. > > I went to USR.com and downloaded their rpm file for Linux which is saved as > LNUX_3ComMdm-1.0-1.i386.rpm and did a rpm -i. It errors out with the > message that IRQ 12 is in use. > > Hardrake offers advice to be found at www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html > and that's nice, but truthfully it's all a bit over my head and setserial > didn't work for me either. My modem model is USR325610b. > > Someone please help and hold the acronyms please. :-)
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