[NTLUG:Discuss] Call waiting modem..

[Kyle Edbauer]

At 01:41 PM 8/7/99 -0500, you wrote:
>
>i was in the Best Buy next to the Parks Mall in Arlington yesterday and
>saw modem that claimed to be a call waiting modem...i think you all can
>prolly guess what i mean by that so i will not go into great detail...
>anyway it said it was Linux compatible right on the box!  BUT it was PCI.
>I know from past experience that PCI anythings are a pain in the keester
>(sp?) to setup since many are plug and pray. I know there are the pnptools
>for linux, but has anybody got one of these to work with linux...or does
>this company just sale some software that runs the modem?
>
>just wanted some input...
>

PCI should make install and set up easier. Your motherboard should configure
the IRQ on the PCI card without any intervetion.  You may be confusing
PCI PnP with ISA Pnp.  ISA PnP cards can often require the use of isapnp to
assign proper IRQ and memory addresses.  I've never had a problem with linux
not seeing a PCI card.  Using the card might be a  different story. ;-) 
In order to verify that linux is seeing the card, you can just 
<cat /proc/pci> and it will return the name of your card and the IRQ.

Kyle Edbauer