Re: [newbie] Modem is busy
I have problem to make my connections to the internet to work using my portable PC. Each time I launch kppp, I have the following message : "Sorry, the modem is busy" What is that ? I've never had any problem with my other computers running Linux, but it's the first time I install Linux on a portable PC, and maybe I made a mistake or/and forget to install something else . These are the infos I've got using Windows : Fujitsu LB Global LTModem Port com2 IRQ9 Address 1010 uart NS 16550AN Max speed : 115k I'm running Mandrake 7.1 and I 've just compiled a new kernel 2.2.17. Thank you for your help. Francois Another thing you can try is irq polling mode - I have to do this for my PCMCIA modem. At the console type setserial /dev/ttyS1 irq 0 and see how that works. Works for me... Regards, Ozz.
[newbie] Modem is busy
Hi, I have problem to make my connections to the internet to work using my portable PC. Each time I launch kppp, I have the following message : "Sorry, the modem is busy" What is that ? I've never had any problem with my other computers running Linux, but it's the first time I install Linux on a portable PC, and maybe I made a mistake or/and forget to install something else . These are the infos I've got using Windows : Fujitsu LB Global LTModem Port com2 IRQ9 Address 1010 uart NS 16550AN Max speed : 115k I'm running Mandrake 7.1 and I 've just compiled a new kernel 2.2.17. Thank you for your help. Francois
Re: [newbie] Modem is busy
In a message dated 10/14/2000 11:51:35 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: have problem to make my connections to the internet to work using my portable PC. Each time I launch kppp, I have the following message : "Sorry, the modem is busy" well this problem occurs in windows as well, usually as a result of driver miscommunication, your best bet is to find an update for your modem, or try reinstalling it, if none of those work check back in with us.
Re: [newbie] Modem is busy
Might also look to see if any other program is using the modem. Do you have hylafax or anything like that installed? And try minicom to see if you can get the modem to init. *^*^*^* Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you. -- Albert Einstein On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 10/14/2000 11:51:35 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: have problem to make my connections to the internet to work using my portable PC. Each time I launch kppp, I have the following message : "Sorry, the modem is busy" well this problem occurs in windows as well, usually as a result of driver miscommunication, your best bet is to find an update for your modem, or try reinstalling it, if none of those work check back in with us.
Re: [newbie] Modem is busy, but it really isn't
You misunderstood me, I meant that if possible, you should set the Modem card up as a non-PnP device. On my modem card, there are a set of jumpers allowing me to either choose PnP, or the serial port the modem will run on. For my configuration, I used the second serial port, since I have a serial trac-ball on the first port. In addition, you will need to look in your BIOS set up, and disable the COM (serial) port the modem will use. This should turn off the serial port built into your mother board, preventing any conflict with the serial port on your modem card. Then, depending on the mother board you have, there may also be a jumper to en/disable the serial port as well. This is not common in recent years, but there may still be some mother boards out there using jumpers for this. So, if possible, set your modem to use the serial port of your choice, disable that serial port in your BIOS set up, and check your mother board documentation, or search the web for your mother board to learn if it needs the serial port to be disabled with a jumper as well. Note: If your mother board is a "jumperless" board, this step will not be necessary. I only included this information because I do not know what board you are using, or how new it is. Sorry I didn't make myself clear the last time, I hope this is better, Ernie - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 6:38 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Modem is busy, but it really isn't Thank you to everybody who replied to my call for help. So far, I haven't had much success. Jeremy wrote that he had the same trouble as me, and all the advice he received didn't help him. That's about the shape I'm in. Jeremy also told me that if my modem has jumpers, he might be able to help me. As it turns out, my modem has two sets of jumpers. One set of jumpers is clearly marked IRQ with jumper settings for "2", "3", "4", "5", and "7". The jumper was not set to anything, so I set the jumper to IRQ 3. The other block is not labeled and has settings for "0", "1", and "SEL". Does anybody know what this means? What should I choose? Ernie suggested that I turn off PnP in the BIOS. My BIOS does not give me that option. Ernie asked if I have a serial mouse. I don't. It's a standard PS2 mouse. Sam suggested that I go to http://www.o2.net/~gromtitkc/11007a.html and see if my modem was really a Winmodem. I was unable to connect to that web site. Civileme suggested that I switch the motherboard BIOS to turn off PnP. I cannot do that. Civileme also suggested that I disable COM1. How do I do that? I don't see it in the BIOS setup parameters. Finally, Civileme suggested that I use the jumpers on the modem. See my response to Jeremy above. I need help setting the jumpers marked 0, 1, and SEL. Richard asked if I did pnpdump followed by isapnp. Yes, I did follow the steps he outlined in his email. I had no luck. I did do a setserial command and I did manage to dump a UART number. I forget the exact number. Once again, I'm hoping someone can help me get my modem working. Thanks again, Mike Dennison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Modem is busy, but it really isn't
Thank you to everybody who replied to my call for help. So far, I haven't had much success. Jeremy wrote that he had the same trouble as me, and all the advice he received didn't help him. That's about the shape I'm in. Jeremy also told me that if my modem has jumpers, he might be able to help me. As it turns out, my modem has two sets of jumpers. One set of jumpers is clearly marked IRQ with jumper settings for "2", "3", "4", "5", and "7". The jumper was not set to anything, so I set the jumper to IRQ 3. The other block is not labeled and has settings for "0", "1", and "SEL". Does anybody know what this means? What should I choose? Ernie suggested that I turn off PnP in the BIOS. My BIOS does not give me that option. Ernie asked if I have a serial mouse. I don't. It's a standard PS2 mouse. Sam suggested that I go to http://www.o2.net/~gromtitkc/11007a.html and see if my modem was really a Winmodem. I was unable to connect to that web site. Civileme suggested that I switch the motherboard BIOS to turn off PnP. I cannot do that. Civileme also suggested that I disable COM1. How do I do that? I don't see it in the BIOS setup parameters. Finally, Civileme suggested that I use the jumpers on the modem. See my response to Jeremy above. I need help setting the jumpers marked 0, 1, and SEL. Richard asked if I did pnpdump followed by isapnp. Yes, I did follow the steps he outlined in his email. I had no luck. I did do a setserial command and I did manage to dump a UART number. I forget the exact number. Once again, I'm hoping someone can help me get my modem working. Thanks again, Mike Dennison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Modem is busy, but it really isn't
I don't know if this will help, but I use a Diamond Supra 56K PnP ISA modem, and when I set it up, the docs indicated that if it is at all possible, to turn off the PnP feature on the modem card, and set it to a port that I know to be available, so I opened my box, and set the modem to use COM port #2 (DOS), and then re-configures windoze to use it there, with the added bonus that I now have a serial port to configure in Win95 ( I had to let the card do it before), and the connection is faster there, also, I then had no trouble setting up the modem in Linux-Mandrake 6.0, since I had all the info correct without any guess work. Might be the easiest way to set the modem port on the card, if the card supports this ( there will be a set of jumpers on the card, and you close the one for your desired serial port.) Another thing, is your mouse a PS/2 or a port mouse? If it is a serial mouse, why isn't it in COM port 1? To locate your modem, you can use the statserial command from a Konsole window or command line. There is a man page on the command. Ernie - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 7:24 PM Subject: [newbie] Modem is busy, but it really isn't I've been fighting with my modem till I'm blue in the face. kppp reports that "modem is busy", but it's just sitting there. I made sure when I bought it that it was not a WinModem. I have an internal ISA PlugPlay US Robotics 56K Voice Faxmodem, model 5685. I have tried isapnp. I've set IRQs etc to what works with dual-boot 95. I've used modemtool. I'm using /dev/ttyS0 since I use COM1 on 95. But I tried the other /dev/ttySx devices as well. No joy. PLEASE HELP ME. Thanks, Mike Dennison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Modem is busy, but it really isn't
Mike, First of all, I hope your modem has jumpers. If not, I can be of no help. I had the same problem with my PnP USR Sportster 33.6. Everybody told me that isapnp would work, but it didn't. I even did the confusing setserial stuff everybody told me to do and nothing worked. My modem has jumpers, so I just jumpered it to the COM # and IRQ instead of leaving it jumpered as Plug and Play. If yours has jumpers, jumper it to COM1 and the generic IRQ 3. I don't know how to tell what IRQ to really use, mine was already set to 3 so I used it and got rid of the "modem busy" messages immediately. Most likely you can just change the COM jumper and leave the IRQ jumper alone. I don't dual boot, so I don't know how this will affect Win95 -- you might have to remove the modem configuration and let it detect and reinstall it again as a non-PnP device. Hope this helps, Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been fighting with my modem till I'm blue in the face. kppp reports that "modem is busy", but it's just sitting there. I made sure when I bought it that it was not a WinModem. I have an internal ISA PlugPlay US Robotics 56K Voice Faxmodem, model 5685. I have tried isapnp. I've set IRQs etc to what works with dual-boot 95. I've used modemtool. I'm using /dev/ttyS0 since I use COM1 on 95. But I tried the other /dev/ttySx devices as well. No joy. PLEASE HELP ME. Thanks, Mike Dennison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Modem is busy, but it really isn't
Go to this website, use the "find in pages" command on the edit menu and type in your modem, or just browse the list. this is a table of modems compatible with Linux. I found out a modem I thought wasn't a winmodem uses a software controlled rockwell chipset :-( http://www.o2.net/~gromtitkc/19991007a.html If that doesn't work, go to the mandrakeuser.org website, click on the hardware link, then the hardware resources link, then Winmodems information page link about 3/4 of the way down the page. Check this out and make sure it'll work under linux before beating your head against the wall. The homepage for this website gives a really good explanation why winmodems don't work. One ruke of thumb- if the modem isn't compatble with DOS- it most likely won't run under linux Jeremy Kersenbrock wrote: Mike, First of all, I hope your modem has jumpers. If not, I can be of no help. I had the same problem with my PnP USR Sportster 33.6. Everybody told me that isapnp would work, but it didn't. I even did the confusing setserial stuff everybody told me to do and nothing worked. My modem has jumpers, so I just jumpered it to the COM # and IRQ instead of leaving it jumpered as Plug and Play. If yours has jumpers, jumper it to COM1 and the generic IRQ 3. I don't know how to tell what IRQ to really use, mine was already set to 3 so I used it and got rid of the "modem busy" messages immediately. Most likely you can just change the COM jumper and leave the IRQ jumper alone. I don't dual boot, so I don't know how this will affect Win95 -- you might have to remove the modem configuration and let it detect and reinstall it again as a non-PnP device. Hope this helps, Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been fighting with my modem till I'm blue in the face. kppp reports that "modem is busy", but it's just sitting there. I made sure when I bought it that it was not a WinModem. I have an internal ISA PlugPlay US Robotics 56K Voice Faxmodem, model 5685. I have tried isapnp. I've set IRQs etc to what works with dual-boot 95. I've used modemtool. I'm using /dev/ttyS0 since I use COM1 on 95. But I tried the other /dev/ttySx devices as well. No joy. PLEASE HELP ME. Thanks, Mike Dennison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Modem is busy, but it really isn't
I've been fighting with my modem till I'm blue in the face. kppp reports that "modem is busy", but it's just sitting there. I made sure when I bought it that it was not a WinModem. I have an internal ISA PlugPlay US Robotics 56K Voice Faxmodem, model 5685. I have tried isapnp. I've set IRQs etc to what works with dual-boot 95. I've used modemtool. I'm using /dev/ttyS0 since I use COM1 on 95. But I tried the other /dev/ttySx devices as well. No joy. PLEASE HELP ME. Thanks, Mike Dennison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
