i just installed RH7 onmy machine dual booting with win2k,am running a PIII 1GHZ-my creative modem blaster DI5655 is not detected by wvdial, setserial does not help. here is my system info..can someone tell me how do i go about configuring the modem? thanks a lot, i appreciate your help!
IRQ Number Device
9 Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System
9 All-In-Wonder 128 Pro AGP
9 Creative SB Live! series(WDM)
9 Creative Modem Blaster V.90 PCI DI5655 WIN2K
9 Standard Universal PCI to USB Host Controller
9 Standard Universal PCI to USB Host Controller
8 System CMOS/real time clock
13 Numeric data processor
12 Microsoft PS/2 Port Mouse (IntelliPoint)
1 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
6 Standard floppy disk controller
4 Communications Port (COM1)
3 Communications Port (COM2)
14 Primary IDE Channel
15 Secondary IDE Channel
10 PCI Device

you modem could be a winmodem.. do you know if it is or not ?? you can check out www.linmodems.org for info on modems and getting them setup under linux if they are...

No-one on this forum seems to be really up to speed on IRQs.

There's a really thick book in my local library computer section called 'IRQs' (if you've read it, please share your insights!!) and I regard it in the same way as 'War and Peace' or 'North and South' or other large 'X and Y' works of fiction.

Aneeway.

I had IRQ conflict problems - the sound and Winmodem both wanted IRQ11. So I set all of the IRQs to 'autoselect' in the BIOS, compiled the module and inserted it at boot time using the /etc/rc.local file. I didn't insert it directly because the init didn't like it, so I made a file called 'linmodem' :

insmod -f /home/kernelbits/ltmodem.o

and made it executable

# chmod u+x+g linmodem

put it in the /usr/bin and entered it in the rc.local file:

linmodem

It's perhaps not the most elegant solution but hey, I like Perl programming so what did you expect?

Bert thanks a lot for your answer, but the fact is i am just getting into Linux, and compiling and stuff is way beyond me!!
still, i'll try doing some research and try what you did!
thanks again

For RH7 you probably need version 5.78f of the linmodem driver. I am assuming you have the Redhat 7.0 with linux kernel 2.2-22.16. Check with:

[root@bigtree root]# uname -r


Get the file with the extension .tar.gz

The .gz is a zip algorithm to compress the file to unzip it,

[root@bigtree root]# gunzip ltmodem5.78f.tar.gz

(the file will now change into ltmodem5.78f.tar)

[root@bigtree root]# tar -xvf ltmodem5.78f.tar

........
(the .tar is a way of 'globbing' files together to make one big file. The command above unglobs them into separate files)
........
........

[root@bigtree root]# cd ltmodem5.78f/

After you've unzipped it, you can browse the contents of the folder using the graphical browser. You'll come across a file called README. Left click and choose 'view'. This file will have further instructions on how to compile the module, which will appear after you've made it as ltmodem.o

The README files can look a bit cryptic at first, but just read what it says and do what it says, and you'll be fine.

Let me know how you get on.