answer to modem help and does ANYONE WANT MY PCMCIA WINMODEM?

[Duane Attaway]

On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Eric Gilliland wrote:

> the modem because it was a software modem, which it certainly is not.  As 
> some of you know, I recently replaced my old winmodem with this one because 
> it is NOT a software modem.   It is a US Robotics 56k Performance Pro modem, 
> Model 5610A.  Any suggestions?

I'd see if it showed up in the message log file, something like /dev/cua3
or something:

less /var/log/messages

My last modem there were a few special initialization instructions for
Linux using setserial and stty to give it an interrupt and a comm port.  
This might be the case if its a PNP modem to get it going.   Here's a 
little instruction snippet off the newsfroups:

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From: Neil Stewart (nc_stewart at hotmail.com)
Subject: Re: Modem Blaster Problems
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup

If you type setserial -g /dev/ttyS* (where * is the port your modem is
on - mines on ttyS2) you might get back a message giving the correct
IRQ and io port, but the UART will be "unknown". I found that by doing
a "setserial /dev/ttyS2 autoconfig autoirq" and then checking the
result with the -g option again that it now recognised my 16550 UART.
After this, pppd could dial my ISP.

As a tip, if you are minicom, type ATZ and press <CR>. If you wait for
5-10 seconds you might see "OK" come back. This shows that you have
the correct io port set up (3e8 or whatever) but the wrong IRQ. (The
first couple of times I tried minicom I quit the app before the "OK"
appeared because I thought it was totally screwed!).

Oh, and check that /dev/modem (if you have it) points to the correct
/dev/ttyS* for your modem.

So, I can now dial my ISP. However, I have a new problem: according to
my Win98 configuration, my ISP will dynamically assign me a name
server IP address. However, I can't see how to use this in Linux - as
far as i can tell I need to set up the nameserver before logging in. I
haven't tried fpting etc to an IP address as I couldn't think of any
last night, so I don't know if it's just a nameserver problem or
something more fundamental. More investigation is needed!

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Speaking of winmodems, does anyone want one?  Its a shiny new US Robotics 
56K Model 3056 pcmcia card.  No receipt, so I can't return it.  Besides I 
have cablemodem now.  Anyone want this fine collector's item?  Free to a 
good home.

> I hope you all have a great weekend.

Thanks!  I'm having a super weekend!  Hope everyone else is too!

-=Duane
http://attaway.yi.org