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modem issue
Stryker:
quote:Originally posted by void main:
Yep, you've got problems. Mine works if it's any consolation. Did you ever mention what distro you are using and the make/model/type of modem you are using? I may have overlooked it. It's good to get that info out right up front.
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It's that same laptop I was talking about in my other post. toshiba satellite 1805-s204. the modem isn't really said anywhere, not specifically like chipset or anything. I've tried something last night. I opened up winxp and ran msd from the win98 cd...
the modem was on com3, so i copied down all that information and used setserial in linux to see what it did. i didn't get that error, but i realized i put the port in as 3 instead of 0x03e8 and once i put it back it gave me an error. port 3 obviously wasn't my modem. i'm running redhat 7.3.
voidmain:
COM3 would be software assigned by the Windows driver. I didn't see in the Toshiba PDF file on your laptop what the chipset was. If it's a winmodem you are probably out of luck and might have to get a compatible PCMCIA modem.
Run "/sbin/lspci" to see if you can get any more info on the built-in modem chipset.
[ November 12, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
Stryker:
quote:Originally posted by void main:
COM3 would be software assigned by the Windows driver. I didn't see in the Toshiba PDF file on your laptop what the chipset was. If it's a winmodem you are probably out of luck and might have to get a compatible PCMCIA modem.
Run "/sbin/lspci" to see if you can get any more info on the built-in modem chipset.
[ November 12, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
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It says it's a software modem, the book i have gives me the protocol that the modem uses, so i think once i am able to communicate with it i should be able to get to this site through linux... again (i went through a tragic dsl loss). i'll try the lspci, be back in a few
voidmain:
quote:Originally posted by Stryker:
It says it's a software modem, the book i have gives me the protocol that the modem uses
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"Software modem" usually equates to "winmodem". And the protocol will do you no good if you don't have a driver for the chipset. The driver would be required on a software modem. Once you find out the chipset you want to look it up on http://www.linmodems.org/
And if you have a book for the modem doesn't it list the model/chipset somewhere in the specs? You might also find a make/model/chipset by looking at the properties of your Windows modem driver.
[ November 12, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
Stryker:
well for lspci I got...
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and just for kicks i did 'lspci -v' and got:
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windows told me that it was on IRQ 11.
linmodems i've tried but they wanted the chipset and i've looked everywhere, even called toshiba, and still never got a strait answer.
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