Re: Trying to get modem to work with Debian

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

ScruLoose wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 08:09:01PM -0500, JAMES MERRITT wrote:
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> (Please set your linewraps to something between 72 and 80 chars)
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> > I have a US Robotics USR5699B PCI modem and I am trying to get it
> > installed under Debian Woody.  According to Windows, it is installed
> > on COM5, IRQ 11.
> >
> > Under Debian, I had to create the com port as ttyS5, then use
> > setserial /dev/ttyS5 irq 11.  Then I tried using wvdial and that does
> > not work, apparently it does not recognize the port.  I don't remember
> > the exact error messages.  Since I am using KDE, I tried using kppp,
> > but kpp does not give the choice of /dev/ttyS5.
> >
> > 1.  Will this modem work under Debian or am I wasting my time?
According to these pages, assuming the model number is a match, it 
doesn't look promising:

http://freewebhosting.hostdepartment.com/g/gromitkc/pci_list.html
http://barmagan.hypermart.net/linux/info/modem_linux.htm

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Kent