[ale] isapnp modem set-up

[Ray Knight]

> -----Original Message-----

> From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf 

> Of Joseph A.

> Knapka

> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 12:51 PM

> To: morrigu_irm at springmail.com

> Cc: ale at ale.org

> Subject: Re: [ale] isapnp modem set-up

> 

> 

> [I'm cc'ing this to ALE so that someone can catch me if

> I tell you to do something really stupid.]

> 

> Sage wrote:

> > 

> >> OK, don't be too hasty here. Does the modem have actual switches or

> >> jumpers on it with which you can set the IRQ etc? If so then it's

> >> NOT PnP

> > 

> > It can be configured with jumpers for PnP, the ttyS and for 

> setting the IRQ. However, the table on the card doesn't 

> always jive with the table in the booklet. Yet another oint 

> of confusion. Gad.

> 

> Could be worse. So here's what you want to do:

> 

> (1) Before installing the modem, login to your machine

> and look at /proc/interrupts, and pick an unused interrupt that your

> modem can be configured to. If there isn't one you'll have to

> disable one of your onboard serial ports in the BIOS, which

> is quite easy to do, but don't worry about it yet. Configure

> the modem to be non-PnP and to use the interrupt you picked.

> 

> (2) Hopefully your modem will let you configure it to any COMn

> port, 1 thru 4. (If not we're back to fiddling with the BIOS.)

> Set the modem to be COM3 (ttyS2).

> 

> (3) Shut everything down, install the modem in the machine,

> reboot.

> 

> (4) Login as root and run

> 

> setserial /dev/ttyS2 irq <IRQ chosen in step 1>

> 

> Now you should be able to start minicom or whatever and talk

> to your modem on /dev/ttyS2. Once you have that working,

> set up PPP etc. You can add the setserial command to the

> appropriate startup script to make the modem work upon

> reboot. (On slackware I'd add it to /etc/rc.local, but

> I don't know about RedHat etc.)

> 


RedHat and Mandrake should have an /etc/rc.serial which you would modify as needed.


> If any of the above is unclear or not possible for you to

> actually do, let me know.

>