"Karen M. Heiby" wrote:
>
> 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.
If /proc/interrupts shows eth0 next to IRQ 3, then you're going to need
to do something to move the ethernet card to another interrupt before
you'll be able to get the modem working.
--
Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
