[NTLUG:Discuss] Modrem^H^H^Hem

[Steve Baker]

agoats 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.

...and that's assuming it's a nice, friendly serial port modem.  If it's
one of those nasty 'WinModem' contraptions then it needs a bunch of fancy
driver software to make it work and all bets are off.

That's why external modems are a safer bet - they are always of the
easy-to-drive kind.

It's been a while since I used a modem (DSL *RULES*!) but one problem
I had was that the IRQ for ttyS0 and ttyS1 were separate - but ttyS2
used the same IRQ as ttyS0 and ttyS3 was the same as ttyS1.  Since my
motherboard had both ttyS0 and ttyS1 as genuine serial ports, I had
to disable ttyS1 in order to have the modem work on ttyS3.  I was
using a serial port mouse at the time (which occupied ttyS0) and my
old Fujifilm digital camera needed a serial port (hence, I had enabled
ttyS1).  It took a lot of messing around to get the modem to work - and
in the end, had to unload my camera onto another PC!

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