From: Geoff Brimhall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I recently got a rather brilliant pc notebook, and have > been able to utilize just about everthing it has through > debian and recompiling the kernel. > Except for one thing - the internal modem. > setserial does not detect the modem's COM port, > nor the irq (it does register the regular > external serial port though). > In fact, something rather strange is going on > with the modem because even Windoze did not > register the modem's COM port until the driver > was properly loaded for it. > What Windoze registered, before the driver, was > the DMA and IRQ of the device - but really had > no idea what to do with it until the driver was > loaded. Then suddenly the COM port was present. > Any ideas on how to get it to work ? I've tried > hard-coding setserial to use the IRQ and COM ports > for the modem, but it just does not register > anything. Somehow linux needs to link more > tightly the DMA to the IRQ ? Sounds like you have either a "winmodem" (which will probably never work under Linux) or a PCMCIA modem (which requrires kernel support and utilities.) What model notebook? Does the modem have a model? - Marsh -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
