[ale] can't get modem to respond...

[Chris Ricker]

On Tue, 27 Aug 1996, Derek S. Ray wrote:

> I had this trouble with my Motorola Lifestyle 28.8 Internal:  it thinks
> it's Plug and Play, but it's not REALLY Plug and Play, or maybe my BIOS
> isn't really PnP, or something, but it doesn't exist at first bootup.  I
> had to kick the old DOS PnP drivers in to load right before Linux boots to
> assign it an address, and then used the line:
> 
> setserial /dev/cua3 port 0x2E0 irq 5 autoconfig

Actually, your bios probably is plug-n-pray (if you have it turned on),
but your operating system isn't ;-).  If you get the isapnptools from red
hat (ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/isapnp/, I believe), they should add enough
PnP support to linux for you to initialize your modem without having to
boot dos.  I'm using them on one of the computers here with its new PnP
33.6 modem, and they work great.

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Chris Ricker
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