On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 07:15:55PM +0000, Pantor wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 10:02:42AM +0000, Pantor wrote: > >>Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >>>On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 08:28:06AM +0900, David Palmer wrote: > >>>> > >>>>Or provide yourself with a fax facility. > >>>Especially handy if tied up with an LPD spool. Makes someone's fax > >>>machine as easy as the printer beside you. > >>> > >>That is allright, but how to make modem working? > > > >OK. Serial stuff. > > > >I've never had a PCI modem, only ISA internal and external modems. > > > >Do PCI modems show up in dmesg with what ttyS? they've been assigned? > > > >check dmesg and see what it says. > > > >Do you have a manual for this modem to tell you what serial parameters > >are default? > > > >Install minicom so that you can try talking to the modem. Read the man > >page. > > > >You may need to intstall setserial so that you can set up the serial > >port presented by the modem. > > > No, dmesg says nothing. Modem is going out of PC.
Don't give up. What about $ dmesg | grep -i tty What serial ports show up; any more than are present on the box (other than the modem)? The highest-numbered one will likely be the modem. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
