Re: getting modem board to work on linux 2.0.30

Joel Philip Jaeggli (joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu)
Thu, 10 Jul 1997 01:11:14 -0700 (PDT)


Kind of an odd irq choice... I take it this computer doesn't have a ps/2
mouse or keyboard device?

I suppose it had to be ask ;) what kind of shark? leopard, sixgill
thresher? (stupid modem names...)

joelja

On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Marty Leisner wrote:

>
> I'm running a builtin modem on a new PC.
>
> It works fine with win95.
>
> It says in windows:
> com4 port 0x2e8 irq 12
>
> I don't see it in autodetect (its a shark modem).
>
> I've done some setserial commands, but to no avail...
>
> I've tried this:
> [root@dw /tmp]# setserial /dev/cua3 uart 16550 port 0x2e8 irq 12
> [root@dw /tmp]# cat </dev/cua3
> cat: -: I/O error
> [root@dw /tmp]# ls -l /dev/cua3
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root uucp 5, 67 Dec 31 1979 /dev/cua3
> [root@dw /tmp]#
>
>
> What's the magic incantations to get it to work (its a Hayes
> compatible modem).
>
>
> marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com
> Don't confuse education with schooling.
> Milton Friedman to Yogi Berra
>

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