problem with lucent isa modem

thebigbread · 09-04-2006, 04:02 PM

I'm having a problem with a lucent ISA modem. Everytime i use kppp, it says "initalizing modem" and sits there, expecting OK. the modem has jumpers for setting IRQ & the COM port, and my motherboard is an ASUS p5a with a amd k6-500-2.

P.S i know this modem works in linux, i used it on my pentium 3 but the processor is no good. i have also tried adjusting the pre- and post- init delay & the line termination. the motherboard BIOS has options to configure the IRQ & DMA manually for ISA.

blackhole54 · 09-11-2006, 03:32 AM

See if you can talk to the modem using minicom. This program must be configured by root using the -s option before a normal user can use it. I would suggest looking at its man page before trying to use it.

You also might look at your /var/log/messages file (or where ever your distro logs the boot messages) to see what serial ports the kernel sees at boot time. For example on my system I see:

Code:

Sep 10 15:35:29 Vectra kernel: ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Sep 10 15:35:29 Vectra kernel: ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Sep 10 15:35:29 Vectra kernel: ttyS03 at 0x02e8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A

Where there first two lines are the serial ports on the mother board and the last line is my ISA modem.

It also might be instructive to look at this thread where I helped somebody else with ISA modem problems a couple months ago.