Re: Getting notebook internal modem to work.
From: Geoff Brimhall <gbrimhall@Rational.Com>
> 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
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