Gurusami Annamalai wrote:
Also I am not sure why, but my computer vendor has also provided a modem (Motorola SM56 PCI Speakerphone Modem) which is attached to the COM3 port under Windows 98. When I check under the Control Panel->Modems->Diagnostics I see only the Motorola SM56 PCI Speakerphone Modem. This modem is plugged into one of the PCI expansion slots (as mentioned in the snippet above).
i don't know this modem but it's quite unlikely that it will work with Linux since moust of the PCI modems are so called Winmodems.
I tried wvdial but it didn't detect my modem. I asked it to specifically look at /dev/ttyS2 (which is the COM3 equivalent) but it gave an input/output error.
Try to configure pon with pppconfig. This tool will search for a modem and if you're lucky it will find yours. Then you can go online with pon and offline with poff.
Frank