[ale] Need Advise

[Enrique Nieves]

Hi everyone, I'm new to the list, so forgive me if 
this is not the correct forum for my question.  I'm a newbie to Linux, 
and enjoying the freedom from Microsoft.
 
I just installed Mandrake 8.1 in my old PC 
(Acer Aspire) AMD K6, 233 Mhz, 128 RAM, 6 gig hard drive.  Everything is 
working great, except for the modem (. . . it's not a Winmodem).  The 
entire machine is running on Linux (Mandrake 8.1).  I 
took out entirely the previous OS, Windows 98. 
 
I'm getting a "modem is busy" 
signal, every time.  
 
The phone line is working, and the modem is 
new.  The modem is a U.S. Robotics 56K, PCI, 
V90/V92, internal, model 5610B.  It is advertised as Linux 
compatible.
 
So far I've tried the following:
 
1-checked the true address of the serial port by 
comparing what I see with the command lspci and setserial. Both addresses are 
the same.
 
2-Checked the IRQ, and it's the correct 
one
 
3-Checked BIOS and disabled 
plug-n-play.
 
4-re-installed Mandrake
 
5-moved the card to another PCI slot
 
I'm running out of options, and would appreciate 
any advise.
 
Thanks,
 
EN