Re: Modem does not work

["Raphael Clancy" <rclancy@salud.unm.edu>]

Owch... looks like you have a win-modem. In order to save on hardware costs a lot of modem manufacturers off load the data compression onto the cpu rather than including special hardware for the tasks. the problem is that this sort of software only runs under windows. (AFAIK) In order to spot a modem which will work with Linux, look for on that claims to support DOS. Usally, these will be ISA if internal, or just about any external modem will work.

R.

>>> Pedro Quaresma de Almeida <quaresma@hilbert.mat.uc.pt> 12/02/99 03:04AM >>>
Hi

I have bought (two day ago) a  modem, it says (in the windows software)
that it is a "Motorols SM56 PCI, Speakerphone Modem" and it is on
COM4.

I already managed to put it working under "MicroMole" ("MicroDull"
(soft!?) in portuguese), but in Linux...

I already try to use minicom, pon, seyon, kppp, ... but no luck :(

The /proc/pci says

PCI devices found:
  Bus  0, device   0, function  0:
    Host bridge: Intel 440BX - 82443BX Host (rev 3).
      Medium devsel.  Master Capable.  Latency=64.  
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0000000 [0xe0000008].
...
  Bus  0, device   7, function  3:
    Bridge: Intel 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 2).
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  
  Bus  0, device   8, function  0:
    Communication controller: Motorola Unknown device (rev 0).
      Vendor id=1057. Device id=5600.
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 11.  Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=1.Max Lat=255.
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe9000000 [0xe9000008].
...
  Bus  1, device   0, function  0:
    VGA compatible controller: Matrox Matrox G200 AGP (rev 1).
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 11.  Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=16.Max Lat=32.
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe8000000 [0xe8000008].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe4000000 [0xe4000000].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe5000000 [0xe5000000].

Its seems that it does not recognise de modem "Motorola Unknown
device" and that it shares the same irq with the graphics card
"IRQ11".

Can you help me? Thanks.

    At\'e breve

Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Departamento de Matem\'atica, Faculdade de Ci\^encias e Tecnologia
Universidade de Coimbra
P-3000 COIMBRA, PORTUGAL
e-mail: quaresma@hilbert.mat.uc.pt 
url: http://www.mat.uc.pt/~pedro/ 
phone: 351 39 791170



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