Re: US Robotics Performance Pro PCI Modem on Debian

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

S Yuval wrote:

> I've purchased a new US Robotics Performance Pro modem that is 
> guaranteed to run on Linux. According to the manual it should be 
> automatically detected by any kernel newer than 2.3.x. However, the 
> modem isn't detected.
> According to what I've read in 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-hardware@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu/msg02979.html, 
> it is possible to make the modem work by calling setserial with the 
> irq and port number given in /proc/pci and by using the autoconfig option.
> Here is the excerpt from the article:
> "Scroll down until you find the data for the serial controller. Mine
> looked like:
>
> <snip>
> Bus  0, device  15, function  0:
>     Serial controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 1).
>       Vendor id=12b9. Device id=1008.
>       Medium devsel.  IRQ 10. 
>       I/O at 0x1890 [0x1891].
>
> <snip>
>
> Make a note of the values for IRQ and I/O port. In my case they were
> 10 and 0x1890 respectively.
>
> Then in the terminal window type
>
> setserial /dev/ttyS1 irq 10 port 0x1890 autoconfig "
>  
> This method does not work.  Also, the rpm package that comes with the 
> modem, "LNUX_3ComMdm-1.0-1.i386.rpm" is not able to setup the modem 
> either.  What should I do? I still have some to return the modem to 
> the store if it becomes necessary.
>  

You might try it on a different machine (or even a different OS), to 
make sure the modem itself is not faulty, but it looks to me like the 
device simply isn't recognized by your kernel. What kernel version are 
you running? Does "lspci -v" report the same info you've posted above?

Kent