Re: Modem busy total newbie

From: Styvaen (abuse_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/01/04 

Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 09:53:18 +0100

taff wrote:

> Hi I'm a total newbie to Linux but want to give it a fair crack, got
> Knoppix v3.3 yesterday burned it to a disk and it starts up fine only
> problem is my modem it's an Intel HaM v92.
> when I try to query the modem on com port 3 I get a report saying that
> "the modem is busy" has anyone any ideas what is going on ? and does this
> mean that it has at least found a usable modem?
> thanks for reading
> Taff

Modem busy means that you are not getting any reply from your modem. Why do
you assume it is on com port 3? Is it because that is where it is assigned
in windows?

Run lspci as root and note down your modem's IRQ and PORT number. Next run
setserial as follows.

# setserial /dev/ttyS0

You should get some output like:
/dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4

This indicates the settings for your serial port that is com1 in windows.

Now do setserial for ttyS1 to ttyS3. You are looking for a serial port with
your modem's IRQ and PORT number. If you find it then you will know which
one to use to query your modem.

If you don't find it then you will need to configure one of your
unused /dev/tty's

For instance:

# setserial /dev/ttyS0 port 0x1420 irq 10

Note that you need to replace those values with your own.

Styvaen.

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