[lug] Modem setup question

[Ken Nagorski]

Hi there,

I once set up a PCTel modem, now it was not a USR modem however it was still
a winmodem and well, it wasn't worth the effort. That is just my 2 cents.

On the subject of looking at what the kernel came up with when it booted you
can use the ever nifty 'dmesg'

dmesg | grep tty (just to see if the kernel sees any serial ports)
dmesg | less (see it all and scroll through it)


There is an article about setting that bad boy up... There is the link

http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/5687-03.html


Thanks
Ken

> 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
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