[ale] Kppp - newbie in trouble

[Stephen F Nicholas]

I actually saw a pci modem at Sam's in Hiram last weekend for ~$20.  It
wasn't a winmodem and it specifically said that it would work with linux
2.x .  Thought I'd pass it along.

Steve

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On 10 Jan 2003, Charles Shapiro wrote:

> Bummer man. Looks like your PCI internal modem (the PCI Diamond Supra
> Express 56k sp i) is designed to work on Microsoft Windows only. Here's
> ( http://www.tdl.com/~netex/modem/modem.html ) the web reference I found
> from a quick google search. Your modem is referenced at about the fifth
> line down under "Diamond Multimedia Supra Modems".
> 
> This modem uses the CPU through special proprietary windows-only drivers
> for much of its function. That's why it's so cheap to buy.
> If you're feeling brave, you may be able to get it to work by installing
> additional software on your linux box; this
> (http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html) page could get you
> started.  
> 
> Of course, the path of least resistance is to grit your teeth and  spend
> $100 or so on a real (operating-system independent) modem. That modem
> will also function with freeBSD and other interesting OSs, should you
> decide to explore them. I've had good luck with the US Robotics
> 'Sportster' line.
> 
> -- CHS
> 
> On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 04:02, William Coles wrote:
> > Greetings Hack-Heads and Nix Gurus!
> > 
> > Newbie here, looking for some pointers. I'm having trouble establishing a
> > ppp connection when booted into Slackware (7.0). I've been reading through
> > manuals and trying to figure things out on my own, but thus far to no avail.
> > I'm starting to wonder if the version of Linux I'm running just won't talk
> > to my modem. Before I go out and spend money on a new hardware external
> > modem, I'm trying to see if I can make things work. Any advice would be
> > greatly appreciated. Here's the low down so far:
> > 
> > My box:
> > 
> > Aesus board, Pentium II processor, 256 MB RAM, two HDD's. I'm dual booting
> > Win2k and Slackware (on separate partitions, but both on the first HDD).
> > Modem is a PCI Diamond Supra Express 56k sp i. In Windows, it is located on
> > Intel 82371AB/EB PCI to ISA bridge (ISA Mode). It's on COM 2 IRQ 5 I/O
> > 03E8 - 03EF. the driver is winnt\system32\drivers\modem.sys It is a plug and
> > play modem as well.
> > 
> > 
> > The Issue:
> > 
> > Install of Linux went smooth as silk. Boots fine, LILO does it's thing.
> > Running X Window, using KDE and Kppp. No connectivity. Using Setup in Kppp,
> > I have changed the device and than ran Query Modem with the following
> > results:
> > 
> > dev/ttyS0
> > dev/ttyS1
> > dev/cua0
> > 
> > all report back "Modem ready" when running the query, but then when the
> > Modem Query Results window shows up, all the ATI fields are empty. Also all
> > other dev's report either 'Can't open modem' or 'Modem is busy'
> > 
> > I have tried going to Term as well. On the /dev/ttyS0, ttyS1 and cua0 it
> > reports "initializing modem" than "modem ready" but when entering ATI
> > commands, nothing happens.
> > 
> > What I've tried:
> > 
> > cat/proc/pci (as root) to see if I could find the port for the modem to do
> > setserial/ttyS0 (or ttyS1 or cua0) uart 16550A port (enter port hex) IRQ 5
> > 
> > The only thing I found that might be it is "serial controller: unknown
> > vendor unknown device. which listed a port hex code, but no IRQ. I tried to
> > setserial using this port and using cua0. Still nada in Kppp.
> > 
> > Is there hope???
> > 
> > Any advice will be greatly appreciated. I'm loving my Linux, but it should
> > would be better online...
> > 
> > Thanks for your time,
> > 
> > Bill
> > 
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