topic Re: Help initializing modem in Operating System - Linux

Help initializing modem

K.C. Chan — Sat, 01 Nov 2003 20:56:53 GMT

All,
how does one dertermine which device file does this modem belong to? Here's the output of lspci,
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB AC'97 Modem (rev 03).

fyi, I am running rh9.

Re: Help initializing modem

Martin P.J. Zinser — Sat, 01 Nov 2003 22:14:03 GMT

Hi,

I do not have Redhat, but my SuSE system does have a /dev/modems directory, which is the place I would start looking...

Re: Help initializing modem

Zigor Buruaga — Sun, 02 Nov 2003 02:46:18 GMT

Hi,

Try with /dev/modem

[root@zigor-rh9 /]# ll /dev/modem
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 26 11:56 /dev/modem -> /dev/ttyS0

HTH
Kind regards,
Zigor

Re: Help initializing modem

Martin P.J. Zinser — Sun, 02 Nov 2003 10:19:19 GMT

Zigors example most probably shows an external modem /dev/ttyS0 being the first serial interface). Since you do have an internal one it will look different.

Re: Help initializing modem

Mark Grant — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 02:19:55 GMT

Try looking for serial ports in the output of "dmesg" i.e "dmesg | grep tty". It could possibly be one of those.

Re: Help initializing modem

K.C. Chan — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 09:46:46 GMT

it's strange that it list this when doing dmesg and grepping for tty:
ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A

It does not have a modem attached to it. Isn't this suppose to be my com1 port? What is going on here?

Re: Help initializing modem

Martin P.J. Zinser — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 11:59:16 GMT

Yup, ttyS0 should be your first serial (COM) port. If you do not have an external modem this should not be your modem card.

Re: Help initializing modem

Huc_1 — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 12:14:52 GMT

Zigor is right in most case you should have a soft link like the following

ls -l /dev/modem
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 May 14 15:57 /dev/modem -> ttyS0

often in the default install this is just

ls -l /dev/ttyS0
crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 64 Jan 30 2003 /dev/ttyS0

This is if you use uucp

I also find usefull to invoke as root

# minicom -s

from there you can set up port/modem terminal setup and more

J-P

Re: Help initializing modem

K.C. Chan — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 22:49:43 GMT

Ok, I've check, there is no /dev/modem, as we know it is just a soft link. I think I need the driver for the modem so that my laptop can pick it up properly. What do you guys think? Does any one know where I can download driver for such a modem? Thanks.

Re: Help initializing modem

Mark Grant — Tue, 04 Nov 2003 01:54:11 GMT

THe only bit of information I have found on getting this modem to work is

http://seehuhn.de/comp/toshiba.html#modem

It might be a bit old now though.

Re: Help initializing modem

root_6 — Sun, 30 Nov 2003 05:49:26 GMT

first of all in linux problem is it dont works fine with win modems
win modem sr those modems which r emulated my their driver to windows as they r orignal serial devices
u didnt mentioned by wt name is it identified in any windows OS
i configed intel HAM 56k Ambient chipset modem in linux
check there which modem do u have

http://www.intel.com/design/modems/support/drivers.htm#drivers

http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/Product_Filter.asp?ProductID=977

Re: Help initializing modem

root_6 — Sun, 30 Nov 2003 05:55:33 GMT

also i forgot to telll
use kppp (best as far as i had been using)
in KDE to onfig modem
if u r not a newbie then use
/etc/wvdial.conf file
if u already had installed wvdial rpm
u can check wether wvdial is installed by comand at shell
rpm -q wvdial

good luck