RH8.0 installed fine on my laptop, but did not detect the Smartlink modem. So I got the Linux Smartlink driver (ftp.smlink.com/linux), compiled and installed it. The modem works fine (on /dev/ttySL0), but it seems a bit slow. So I tried to check it with:

setserial -agv /dev/ttySL0

but got:

Cannot get serial info: Invalid argument

So I tried:

stty -F /dev/ttySL0

and it gave:

speed 115200 baud; line = 3;
min = 1; time = 0;
ignbrk -brkint -icrnl -imaxbel
-opost -onlcr
-isig -icanon -iexten -echo -echoe -echok -echoctl -echoke

I noticed here that the speed is OK, but there is no crtscts entry. The slowness can be a symptom of no hardware flow control, so is is possible to set hardware flow control on this modem? And why does setserial fail?

lspci please ?

Well, the speed seems to be better now (ISP was slow I think), but here is my lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 645DX Host (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5591/5592 AGP
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513 (rev 04)
00:02.3 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] FireWire Controller
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
00:02.6 Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 56k Winmodem (Smart Link HAMR5600 compatible) (rev a0)
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7012 PCI Audio Accelerator (rev a0)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (rev 0f)
00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (rev 0f)
00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 7002
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet (rev 91)
00:08.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6912 Cardbus Controller
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 440 Go 64M] (rev a3)

I upgraded the kernel to 2.4.26, and all problems went away. But I have broadband now ;-)