On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Robert Henry Rati wrote: > > > On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > > > Yup. Under hamm. I've had trouble is isapnp in the past but setting up an > > > internal USR > > > Sportster this time was a breeze and it was actually better since I could > > > use IRQ 5 > > > which is non-standard for a serial port (I'm using two other ports > > > already). Does > > > pnpdump find the device? > > > > > > Robert Henry Rati wrote: > > > > > > > Has anyone configured a PNP modem in Linux using PNPISATOOLS? I have a > > > > 33.6 modem which (unfortunately) is PNP and haven't been able to get > > > > Linux > > > > to recognize it. It should see it on /dev/ttyS1, since it's set for Com > > > > 1. Also, there were a number of scripts setup to connect you to an isp > > > > when you install Linux. I ment to go back and read the man page on > > > > them, > > > > but I've forgotten when the name was. I seem to remember con or some > > > > three letter command like that. Any help there? > > As far as I can tell, pnpdump doesn't find my modem. That is probably > > because I haven't changed the isapnp.conf file because I don't know what I > > need to change. I looked at the man pages, but they weren't much help, ad > > looking at the file itself is like reading greek. I know the settings for > > my modem, but don't know how to put them into isapnp.conf so pnpdump will > > find it. It's on Com2, Irq 3, and I have the IO address written down. > > What do I need to put in the isapnp.conf to get it to be seen? Or > > atleast, someplace to start looking for changes? > > First, if your modem really is PNP then pnpdump should certainly find it. > pnpdump doesn't > use any config file at all. It discovers PNP boards through the process > defined in the spec. > Basically, PNP boards are supposed to read/write on a special PNP IO address. > It could be > though that after a device is configured it no longer has to look at this > port. It could be > that this last statement is true and that your BIOS is PNP aware and is > setting up the > hardware before you get the chance to. In this case as long as it assigns the > same IO/IRQ > each time (it should as long as you don't add or remove hardware) you don't > need to run > isapnp at all, you just need to do 'setserial /dev/ttyS? blah blah'. > > -- > Jens B. Jorgensen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > My Bios is PNP aware, I know that. When you run pnpdump, what output does it give you if it finds something? When I run it, I get a long list of what looks like the isapnp.conf file with a lot of stuff commented out. Infact, it doesn't look like anything is commented in. If setserial will work, is there a way to have my modem configured via setserial on bootup?
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