Re: dial up modem

On 20 Dec 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.hardware, in article
<476af2ba$0$26112$88260bb3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, McDoo wrote:

Moe Trin wrote:

Most RS-232 externals (the old serial port) work just fine (USB
wasn't well supported then), while PCI internals tend to be
loosers.

Thanks a lot! I have a zoom 2920 pci modem but was unable to install
it. I think You have given me the answers!!

Zoom 2920? That's a Venus chipset and should work like a charm.
Lessee...

OK G2MUSA-33941-M5-E
BDNUSA-27926-M5-E L56DV 56K PCI Data/Fax Controller-based Modem Digitan
Model DS560-558, Zoom 2920/1125/H08-15002, Lucent 1673 (Venus) chipset
(PCI\VEN_11C1&DEV_0480&SUBSYS_048011C1) * No PCI Gene

When this page was active, the "Gene" on the end was a link to a mail
form (I'm listed for about six modems), but thanks to spammers, the
links no longer work, and I don't use the Zomm models. You can try
using 'lspci -vv' and see if that shows a device with a Vendor Code of
'11c1' and a device code of '0480'. If so, the PCI bus can see the
modem. This is what a US Robotics 3CP5610 looked like:

00:0b.0 Serial controller: US Robotics/3Com 56K FaxModem Model 5610
(rev 01) (prog-if 02 [16550])
Subsystem: US Robotics/3Com: Unknown device 00aa
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
I/O ports at d400
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

Then, look at the boot messages, and see if the serial driver
picks it up. You may see something like

May 14 13:02:30 myhost kernel: serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
May 14 13:02:30 myhost kernel: Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90
$68 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
May 14 13:02:30 myhost kernel: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
May 14 13:02:30 myhost kernel: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
May 14 13:02:30 myhost kernel: ttyS2 at I/O 0xd400 (irq = 11) is a 16550A

That last line would be the modem (first two are on-board serial ports).

So, what symptoms did you see - or not see?

You may want to look at the newsgroup 'alt.os.linux.suse'

[compton ~]$ grep ^12.*alt.*suse.*kill ../newslog | cut -d' ' -f1,4-6 | column
12/01/2007 57/57 (1 killed), 12/11/2007 33/33 (0 killed),
12/02/2007 48/48 (5 killed), 12/12/2007 47/47 (1 killed),
12/03/2007 44/44 (0 killed), 12/13/2007 46/46 (1 killed),
12/04/2007 48/48 (3 killed), 12/14/2007 25/25 (1 killed),
12/05/2007 26/26 (0 killed), 12/15/2007 27/27 (0 killed),
12/06/2007 43/43 (1 killed), 12/16/2007 51/51 (4 killed),
12/07/2007 49/49 (3 killed), 12/17/2007 54/54 (0 killed),
12/08/2007 33/33 (1 killed), 12/18/2007 38/38 (3 killed),
12/09/2007 44/44 (1 killed), 12/19/2007 21/21 (2 killed),
12/10/2007 48/48 (4 killed), 12/20/2007 12/12 (1 killed),
[compton ~]$

It's a moderately active group and not to badly trolled, with a
couple of very helpful people (I don't use SuSE - sorry).

Old guy
.

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