[NTLUG:Discuss] Modrem

[Terry]

On 4/21/05, agoats <agoats at compuserve.com> wrote:
> Modems get messy... you need to find what the modem is set to by either
> the bios or some other modem scanning software (i.e. windoze). Most of
> the internal modems went plug-n-pray, so which irq, com number, etc it's
> using is hard to tell.

Or, you could prolly  download / use scanModem
http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/scanModem.gz

> 
> Once you find out what the settings are, and what type of UART it has,
> you then need to set the modem settings. Best place I've found is in
> /etc/rc.d/rc.local (I'm running Slackware, so you need to find the
> equivalent on your system).
> 
> The full format of the command is:
> 
> /sbin/setserial /dev/modem uart 16550A port 0xD800 irq 9
> 
> with /dev/modem linked to /dev/ttyS0 as mine was.
> 
> This will allow anything using device "modem" to connect to the actual
> device ttyS0 and dial out or whatever.
> 
> The above has worked for Practical Peripherals, USR Robotics, ActionTec,
> Hayes and other internal modems.
> 
> Alvin
> 
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