Hi again,
Thanks to all that replied--my modem is working!
I tried John's suggestion first because it was the easiest
;-) namely using ttyS3 instead of ttyS0, and that did the
trick!
Thanks again--I love this list!
Miark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Miark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 2:25 AM
Subject: [newbie] ISA PnP modem won't respond
> Hi all,
>
> My BIOS is set to non-PnP. My ISA (real) modem can be
> jumpered to a specific IRQ, or to PnP. It's currently set
to
> PnP, which works fine in Win98. Linux is a different
story.
>
> Here's what I've done so far: I used pnpdump to get
possible
> settings, and after verifying at /proc/interrupts that it
> was free, I chose IRQ 4 for /etc/isapnp.conf file.
> (Incidentally, pnpdump gave me two choices for this
> particular setting: one in which you choose the io
address,
> and the other where you choose the IRQ. Only the IRQ
choice
> worked.) I then ran "isapnp /etc/iaspnp.conf", and Linux
> reported that life was good.
>
> But when I try to connect to the Internet in KDE, I'm told
> that the modem "won't respond" to either /dev/ttyS0 or to
> /dev/modem (which would be the same, thanks to modemtool).
> If I try ttyS1 or anything else, I'm told that the device
is
> "busy", so it knows something is different about ttyS0.
>
> I've been reading and working through this problem for
> almost 4 hours, and I've about given up. What do I do from
> here?
>
> Miark
>
>
