[lug] Modem setup question

[John Karns]

On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Ernie Stiltner said:

> Anyone any suggestions on getting a new modem running on redhat 7.2?
> The modem is a us robotics 5687 which runs ok on other systems, but on linux
> the internet dialer claims the modem is busy. Where is the busy status held?
>
> And - are there any built in utilties, such as checkit or norton utilities
> that give some idea of the hardware?

Regarding modems under Linux, check the linmodems web site.  If it's an
internal modem, then more than likely it's a winmodem which diminishes
your chances of success to maybe 50% or so.

Other points to be aware of regarding hardware detection by Linux:

- /var/log/boot.msg, /var/log/messages: look for entries involving ttySn
(n = 0,1, ...) or clues about undetected devices

- /proc/devices: "cat /proc/devices"

- LDP HowTo documents: many distros include a good many of these.  Take a
look in /usr/share/doc to see what might be there, or "locate HOWTO" at
a command prompt.

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John Karns                                        jkarns at csd.net