I read the HOW-TO for modems and I'm lost as all get out. I would
appreciate if someone could help me troubleshoot what is wrong by asking
me some questions.
I have a generic (Wisecom) 33.6kbps modem. It is not PnP, and it is not
a winmodem.
Here's all I can tell you so far: the setserial -g command appears to
be configured correctly. My modem is on /dev/ttyS1 and it is linked to
/dev/modem. I thought everything must be set correctly but still I
can't get any fax/phone programs to work.
/proc/ioports has me confused though because I don't know how to
interpret what I see there. Next to the "3" it has eth0, so I don't
know if that means "eth0" is using my modem's IRQ or what. I ran
minicom and looked in /proc/ioports to see what it was using and minicom
wasn't there.
None of my fax or dialing programs work. Minicom thinks it's
initializing the modem, but it won't dial anything. I don't know what
else to say, so if you have any good probing questions for me, I'd be
happy to answer them for the help.
Not that I want to use minicom, but I heard it was a good program to
check if your modem was working. I'd rather use the faxing programs
such as efax, and learn how kppp works. Kppp says my modem is busy
(I just rebooted though). Efax has a lot of I/O errors.
Also, how do I set permissions for a modem? I get "permission denied"
when I'm someone other than root, and I type "efax" in a terminal.
TIA,
Karen
