I purchased a hardware based internal PCI modem:
http://www.usr.com/products/home/hom...p?sku=USR5610B
It works great on winxp and suse 9.3 (Suse detects it immediately through the YAST). But somehow, slackware (my fav distro), does not really detect my modem or doesn't want to.
I ran cat /proc/pci and my modem is listed there in irq 5 I/O 0xd800
I tried to login via KDE kppp tool (which in my opinion is the easiest), and after querying the modem on all the available /dev/ttsy* kppp can't find it.
I turned off the computer and switched the modem to another PCI slot and cat /proc/pci found my modem in irq 11. But setting it up in kppp doesn't detect the modem on either /dev/ttsy*
lspci -vv shows my modem loud and clear...so slack sees it but can't access it?
I am pretty confident that the modem is /dev/ttys3 or COM4 in winxp. So I set it up that way... and kppp tells me the modem is busy. Other ports the modem is not found.
I tried pppsetup and set the modem /dev/ttsy3 and when I typed, as root, ppp-go or ppp-on I get: "error in script"
Since I cannot use the internet at this time in my apt, I am logging all this from memory and using my school's internet connection so I cannot post computer modem diarrhea here..
Setting up a modem should NOT be this hard, but apparently slack is notorious for old school configuration. What is another way for me to get this modem up and running?? Am I missing a "driver"? What information do I need to post?