Re: [newbie] ISA PnP modem won't respond
On Sunday 14 January 2001 01:25, you wrote: 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. I think you'll have a more successful time if you jumper it to use a specific IRQ / comm port. Doublecheck your configuration - usually you'll have the modem on one IRQ/comm port and the mouse on another. If the mouse is already working on one IRQ, choose the other one :). 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). /dev/modem is usually a symbolic link to either /dev/ttyS0 or /dev/ttyS1, whichever your modem is on. If your modem is on 'com 1' (in windows/dos) then you should use /dev/ttyS0. If I try ttyS1 or anything else, I'm told that the device is "busy", so it knows something is different about ttyS0. It's possible that /dev/ttyS1 is your mouse. It's busy :). Like I said, the approach I would take first is to jumper the modem to use the 'other' comm port (most systems have two of these, although it is possible to have four total). You can try echoing characters to the modem device from the command line if you want to check if it's hooked up right. Alternatively try interfacing with the modem through 'minicom' which should be installed on your system. It's a terminal-based comm program which is pretty easy to use. At least you should be able to type out somehting like "ATDT xxx' to see if the modem dials. Miark -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---
Re: [newbie] ISA PnP modem won't respond -- FIXED!
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
[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
Re: [newbie] ISA PnP modem won't respond
Did you setserial the com port, irq, and ioports? If so, then you just have to keep trying the different configurations until you hit upon the right combo. It can take time. BTW, if your sound card is also isa, you can use sndconfig to set up your isapnp.conf, and then just setserial the port and irq it sets up for the modem in that file. (Easier). -s On Sunday 14 January 2001 09:25 am, you wrote: 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
Re: [newbie] ISA PnP modem won't respond
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 02:25:20 -0700, Miark wrote: 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? Sun, 14 Jan 2001 08:01:16 Hello Miark...when I struggled with this problem it turned out to be an IRQ conflict between the modem and a USB controller...I did not find this easy because I had deactivated the USB in bios and thought it dead... However it still sucked the life from the modem and gave me the "modem is busy" not very helpful error. Run this tric procinfo and see what is listed on the irq? Run this tric cat /proc/pcithat may give you some info also? Run this tric setserial -g /dev/ttyS*it gives all the tty and irq info Look for stuff on the same irq as the modem is using like especially a mouse and try moving the irq of the modem around? Four hours?? no big dealI fought it for many weeks 8-) Luck to you Olly P Biloxi
Re: [newbie] ISA PnP modem won't respond
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 02:25:20 -0700, Miark said: 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? Your mouse of whichever type will be assigned to /dev/ttyS0. You should use one of the other /dev/ttySx devices. /dev/ttyS0 = Com1 /dev/ttyS1 = Com2 and so on. Cheers -- Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmers' Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972)
