USR modem not working under Mandrake 8

danielshoes · 06-16-2001, 07:21 PM

When installing Mandrake 8, my USR modem model 2976 (not winmodem) is detected as a model 5610 and when I go to kpp and try to dial, I receive a modem busy message. How can I make it work?

I am a little bit new in the Linux world.

trickykid · 06-19-2001, 03:06 PM

this might indicate you have a wrong serial port, IO address and IRQ when it first detected and installed your modem.
you can find info here in the howto's at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Modem-...17.html#ss17.2 on that particular error or something.

it might come down you need a updated driver possibly.

have you tried to query your modem and match it up with whatever ttySx number or whatever.....

danielshoes · 06-19-2001, 09:38 PM

Thanks for your reply!

Actually, I've visited the recomended page before your suggestion, but it was no very helpfull (quite informative, but not objective solutions)

I found some objective information to my modem specifically on this page. I've followed that steps and the modem worked. I needed just to run setserial with some parameters.

The modem was on ttyS4! The only problem is that at each new boot I need to run de command again. I want to know how can I make this change definitive.

Rimmer · 06-23-2001, 05:03 PM

If I'm understanding your post correctly the problem is that kppp can't find the modem (because its on ttyS4).

Here is a solution you might try:

1) remove /dev/modem
2) make a symbolic link call /dev/modem that points to /dev/ttyS4
3) no tell kppp to /dev/modem when dialing

This works for me (USR 56K Performance Pro and kernel 2.4.4).

I'm a bit curious about your modem... is this a new model? I haven't heard of it before. I wonder if this is the OEM version of my modem.

Rimmer

DavidPhillips · 06-24-2001, 10:41 AM

I am not sure what the problem is with the modem but you will fix it if you go here:

http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html

Be sure to read the whole thing.