Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 16 May 2007 12:15, Walter Dnes wrote: > >> On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:19:13AM +0100, Mick wrote >> >> >>> On Sunday 13 May 2007 21:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> >>>> My ADSL connection had a short outage yesterday. I discovered, to my >>>> consternation, that my machine's internal modem wasn't being picked up. >>>> >>> Was this working before then - e.g. since the last time you compiled your >>> kernel? >>> >>> In any case you would probably want to (r)emerge the driver for this >>> modem. >>> >> It's *NOT* a "winmodem". It's a bog-standard PCI modem that has >> worked in the past under linux without requiring special drivers. The >> only tweak it requires is allocating more than 4 serial ports in the >> kernel, which I've done. >> > > Apologies! I have not come across a real internal modem so far and I readily > assumed that it was a softmodem. I thought that the "more than 4 ports" > setting was required for softmodems not real modems. >
Usually PCI modems start at ttyS5 or higher. I had a real ISA modem once but have not seen one since. I had to get a external serial to make SURE I was getting a REAL modem. They do exist though. Wish I new what to do to get it working though. Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part.
