Re: dial up modem

On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.hardware, in article
<slrnfmoe1o.a6h.BitTwister@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Bit Twister wrote:

I cannot remember the modem model number but I did install a Zoom pci
in a system. Install instructions had you do a lspci -v to get modem's
port and irq number, then you could add a line like
setserial /dev/ttyS3 uart 16550A port 0xdf00 irq 16

Shouldn't need the UART type, but otherwise, this was the instructions
for a 1.2 to 2.4 kernel - the boxes I have with modems are still running
2.4.35 for other reasons. This should not be needed on the 2.4.x kernels
as the serial driver (version 5.05c or similar) should autodetect the
PCI port.

Aug 21 16:23:27 Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS
SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
Aug 21 16:23:27 ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Aug 21 16:23:27 ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Aug 21 16:23:27 ttyS2 at 0x0d400 (irq = 11) is a 16550A

The key there being the 'SERIAL_PCI' mode. I _believe_ that the 2.6
serial driver should also auto-detect the PCI card.

Do a "ls -s /dev/ttyS3 /dev/modem" and away you went with just about any
software.

Ummm... 'ln -s /dev/ttyS3 /dev/modem' might work better ;-)

Old guy
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