Re: modem doesn't work under 2.2.x

Dustin Marquess (jailbird@alcatraz.fdf.net)
Sat, 13 Feb 1999 23:29:04 -0600 (CST)


On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, Conde Martinez Rodolfo wrote:

>
> I don't know if my last mail reached at all but here's it again a
> little modified afther i tried the kernel's pnp driver (it didn't work :( )
> sorry if it arrives twice........
>
>
>
> Hi all it's been some time since i last wrote to the list but now
> i'm here again with a little problem with my modem and 2.2.x:
>
> Since 2.1.x my modem doesn't work with, if i try to initialize it
> the program that i use tells me: unable to open /dev/modem (symbolic link
> to /dev/ttyS2) and if i try using setserial /dev/modem it tells me: Device
> or resource busy....my modem is a Rockwell fax modem PnP, for the PnP
> think i use the bios to configure it but i dont't think it could be that
> the problem because the bios configures also a SB AWE64 and there is till
> now no problem, the driver loads ok...
>
> What can i do ?? it seems i'm the only one with this problem at
> least here in mexico as nobody has said something about it...
>
> i have used the kernel's pnp driver but it doesn't work non with
> the modem neither with the SB....
>
> thanks for all the answers......

Try making the serial port driver a module, and run isapnp to
config the modem before the load the module...

-Dustin

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