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<H4>By James T. Dennis,
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>Another Damn WinModem</H3>
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<p><strong>From Mark F. Johnson on Mon, 04 Jan 1999
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Another Damn WinModem
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Greetings Honorable Answer Guru,
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I have been helping a friend of mine set up RedHat Linux on his system
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(dual-boot with Windows98). He has a Diamond Supra PCI Voice modem,
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which is set up on Com 3 but has an IRQ of 11. (I know, I know, it's
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bizarre, but that's the way it is.) His modem works fine in Windows, but
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Linux wants to assign it IRQ 4, of course. The modem is apparently
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configured to use IRQ 11 and the IRQ can't be changed in Windows. I have
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tried using the "setserial" command and was successful with changing the
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IRQ, but the modem still won't initialize, and rebooting the system
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resets the IRQ to the default. I've only been into Linux for about a
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month, so I'm no expert in the fine art of script writing. I am willing
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to try, if someone like yourself might give me a starting point and head
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me off in the right direction. Any ideas/suggestions wil be greatly
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appreciated.
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Last I heard the Diamond/Supra PCI modems were of the
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"winmodem" variety. They don't work under MS-DOS, or
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Linux (only under Windows --- probably only under Win '95
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and Win '98, maybe they have an NT driver, too).
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So you should probably return it. Then go back through
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last year's "Answer Guy" and search for the word
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modem. Almost ever problem that has been reported about
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any internal modem as been that it was a <EM>winmodem</EM>.
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Hopeless!
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(If Diamond <EM>claims</EM> it is not --- then boot from a plain
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old DOS floppy and get it to to dial the phone using an old
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shareware copy of Telix, Procomm, QModem, or any other
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MS-DOS program. If that works, there's hope. Otherwise
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BURN IT!)
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(If it really isn't a winmodem then try disabling "plug and
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play" in your BIOS and/or play with the pciutils package
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(available at Linux sites --- search
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<A HREF="http://www.freshmeat.net"
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>http://www.freshmeat.net</A> for that).
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>Modem Recommendations</H3>
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<p><strong>From Mark F. Johnson on Fri, 08 Jan 1999
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Modem Recommendations
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Greetings Once Again Honorable Guru,
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You were, of course, right on target with your previous assesment of my
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modem woes in regards to what was indeed a WinModem. I had my friend go to
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the same dealer from whom I bought my modem, an A_Open FM-56. He bought an
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installed what was supposedly the same modem, but again, no joy. Come to
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find out that A_Open's current line of PCI modems, including both FM-56
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models, are all WinModems. The DOJ may be on to something afterall. To make
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a long and boring story short, my friend is going to buy an external modem.
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To save time and continued harassment of your Honorable self, may I implore
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you to recommend a moden that will work equally well with Windows and Linux?
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Much appreciation for your assistance.
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Any external modem should be O.K.
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--- I use an older Zyxel 28.8 --- and I've had
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good luck with the old Practical Peripherals 28.8 fax
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modems.
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However, the model change so fast, and the companies
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merge and die so often that this is another of those
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areas where look at the latest Hardware-HOWTO and a
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poll of your favorite users group, newsgroup or mailing
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list is probably your best bet.
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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(I like U.S Robotics Courier series --- but they are
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expensive. I detest their less-expensive "Sportster"
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series --- too cheap).
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>Copyright ©</a> 1999, James T. Dennis
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<BR>Published in <I>The Linux Gazette</I> Issue 37 February 1999</H5>
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