[NTLUG:Discuss] Modrem

[Terry]

On 4/21/05, Tom Hayden <tom.hayden.iii at mail.airmail.net> wrote:
> 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

I'm not sure what ttyS00 means, other than the fact that serial is yet
to be assigned.  May need to get / use 'setserial'
(I'm thinking that serial port may be unassigned.)
(If there are no jumpers on the board for serial port assignment, it
will require a software solution to assign serial port.)

Have you investigated the Linux software:
ftp://ftp.usr.com/usr/dl15/LNUX_3ComMdm-1.0-1.i386.rpm

(I know that Slackware comes with a tool called rpm2tgz and I'm assume
/ hope Debian has something comparable, right?)

> 
> 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.
> 
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