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Mick wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 16 May 2007 12:15, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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>> On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:19:13AM +0100, Mick wrote |
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>>> On Sunday 13 May 2007 21:18, waltdnes@××××××××.org wrote: |
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>>>> My ADSL connection had a short outage yesterday. I discovered, to my |
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>>>> consternation, that my machine's internal modem wasn't being picked up. |
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>>> Was this working before then - e.g. since the last time you compiled your |
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>>> kernel? |
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>>> In any case you would probably want to (r)emerge the driver for this |
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>>> modem. |
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>> It's *NOT* a "winmodem". It's a bog-standard PCI modem that has |
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>> worked in the past under linux without requiring special drivers. The |
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>> only tweak it requires is allocating more than 4 serial ports in the |
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>> kernel, which I've done. |
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> Apologies! I have not come across a real internal modem so far and I readily |
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> assumed that it was a softmodem. I thought that the "more than 4 ports" |
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> setting was required for softmodems not real modems. |
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Usually PCI modems start at ttyS5 or higher. I had a real ISA modem |
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once but have not seen one since. I had to get a external serial to |
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make SURE I was getting a REAL modem. They do exist though. |
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Wish I new what to do to get it working though. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) :-) |
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Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part. |
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