[NTLUG:Discuss] Modrem

[Tom Hayden]

O.K. In order

Terry - On the side of the box it says "Controller-based" and on the 
end, under system requirements, it says "Linux (Kernel 2.3 and higher)".
I am pretty sure that means it is a hardware modem. A possible problem 
is my Kernel appears to be 2.2.


Ralph - The distro is Debian 3.0 R4I3 and the DE is Gnome. It does not 
appear to have kppp.
Yes, and I was also a member of the Chicago 7 :) LOL


Paul - I ran the 2 commands you suggested and got:

dmesg | grep tty

ttyS00 at 0x3f8 (irq=4) is a 16550A

lspci -vv

Serial Controller: USRobotics/3COM 56K FaxModem Model 5610 (rev 01) 
(prog-if 02[16550])
Control: I/O+ Mem- Busmaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- 
Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B
Status: cap+ 66Mhs- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
<TAbort- <Mabort- >SERR- <PERR-
Interupt: pinA routed to IRQ0
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEC1 k- DSI- D1- D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME<D0+, D1-, D2+, D3hot+, 
D3cold+>
Status: D0 PME- Enable- Dsel=0 PSCALE=2 PME-

That "ttyS00" looks a little funny. Shouldn't there be just one 0?


Alvin - Based on the results I got from Paul's suggestions it appears I 
should try:

/sbin/setserial /dev/modem uart 16550A port 0x3f8 irq 4

and then:

ln -s /dev/ttyS00 /dev/modem


I will give this a try and see what happens.