Re: [newbie] Modem Install Hassles

[Alan Shoemaker]

Mark Shaw wrote:
 There aren't any jumpers of any kind on the card.

 I think I've almost got this working.  What I did was to
 move the card from PCI slot 4 to slot 2, and reset the BIOS
 to allow it to choose the IRQ.  (The PnP-aware OS switch in
 my BIOS is, and has always been, set to no.)

 Interestingly enough, the BIOS chose IRQ10 for the modem,
 which is what I had it last manually set to when it was in
 slot 4.  But now the OS sees it, and I can actually dial a
 number with kppp!

 But then I get an error telling me that the ppp daemon shut
 down prematurely, or something like that (it was late). 
 I'm further down the road, though.  I'll just have to poke
 at it some more, I hope

 Thanks!

 Mark Shaw

Markcheck and see if the option 'noauth' is in your 
/etc/ppp/options file.  If not, add it on it's own line and 
see if that helps your problem.
-- 
Alan

[newbie] Modem Install Hassles

[lee]

Hi Mark,

I just went down the road you're on,here's what I did. I have a zoom isa 
modem. Of course you have disabled pnp in the bios,and I know you have the 
jumpers on the card set to non-pnp as well. I put the modem on com 3( as set 
by the jumpers on the modem). I have reserved irq 5 for the modem.
Now you can use minicom to initialize the modem. The big thing for me was to 
make sure pnp is disabled on the modem as well. Check your install cd for the 
modem if you need further directions.
Hope this helps a bit, if not fire back a response and we'll go from there. 
Good luck and hava nice wknd :)
Lee