I just finished installing Fedora Core 1 on an old Digital PC 5400 (200 MHz Pentium Pro from back in the pre-DIMM days). The computer came with Windows NT, but I fetched what files were of interest to me and did a clean install, giving the whole 8.something Gbyte hard drive over to Linux (it has the latest BIOS I can find for it, which claims to support 8.something Gbyte hard drives)..
On the computer I had installed a Sony SuperStation (which I have read elsewhere is a big mistake, but that's probably not important right now) and a Zoom modem--I am pretty sure it is not a Windows-only modem, since I made a point of avoiding them in anticipation of a move to Linux. The Fedora installation apparently detected it, because when I did the reboot after the install, the screen showing the details of booting came up and said that I'd removed a "generic serial modem," and did I want to remove the configuration? I said yes. I have no reason to doubt that it did so, but firing up the Hardware Browser shows that it sees a "Zoom V90 Internal Faxmodem Unknown".
This computer is planned to go to a friend who could use it, and she'll need dialup capabilities. How should I proceed from this point to get the modem recognized and usable? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
James Jones
James Jones wrote:
Fedora installation apparently detected it, because when I did the reboot after the install, the screen showing the details of booting came up and said that I'd removed a "generic serial modem," and did I want to remove the configuration? I said yes. I have no reason to doubt that it did so, but firing up the Hardware Browser shows that it sees a "Zoom V90 Internal Faxmodem Unknown".
Hi James,
I assume Kudzu asked you to remove the drive. No problem, this is only some kind of bug in Kudzu. Just install the modem using Internet Configuration Wizard in System Tools. You can just use the modem after that. By the way, its better not to answer yes to the Kudzu question or you'll have to install /dev/modem (I think that's all Kudzu does for you).
Anyway, I'm not sure, but maybe the Internet Configuration Wizard does this for, try it.
Have fun.
Guus.
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 03:00:23PM -0600, James Jones wrote: [snip]
This computer is planned to go to a friend who could use it, and she'll need dialup capabilities. How should I proceed from this point to get the modem recognized and usable? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
My SOP with modems is to use wvdial. Do this as root in a terminal:
wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf
and it will sniff for a modem and write the config.
OK, a followup:
Internet Configuration Wizard failed to detect the modem. Ditto for wvdialconf.
The startup log says:
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: Card "Zoom Internal V90 Faxmodem" isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total
Here's what's in /proc/isapnp:
Card 1 'ZTIa001:Zoom Internal V90 Faxmodem' PnP version 1.0 Product version 0.1 Logical device 0 'ZTIa001:Unknown' Supported registers 0x2 Device is not active Resources 0 Priority acceptable Port 0x3f8-0x3f8, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 4 High-Edge Alternate resources 0:1 Priority acceptable Port 0x2f8-0x2f8, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit +address decoding IRQ 3 High-Edge Alternate resources 0:2 Priority acceptable Port 0x3e8-0x3e8, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 4 High-Edge Alternate resources 0:3 Priority acceptable Port 0x2e8-0x2e8, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 3 High-Edge Alternate resources 0:4 Priority acceptable Port 0x3f8-0x3f8, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 3,4,5,7,2/9,10,12,15 High-Edge Alternate resources 0:5 Priority acceptable Port 0x2f8-0x2f8, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 3,4,5,7,2/9,10,12,15 High-Edge Alternate resources 0:6 Priority acceptable Port 0x3e8-0x3e8, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 3,4,5,7,2/9,10,12,15 High-Edge Alternate resources 0:7 Priority acceptable Port 0x2e8-0x2e8, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 3,4,5,7,2/9,10,12,15 High-Edge Alternate resources 0:8 Priority acceptable Port 0x100-0x3f8, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 3,4,5,7,2/9,10,12,15 High-Edge Resources 1 Priority preferred Port 0x100-0x3f8, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding
/proc/interrupts says:
0: 17929818 XT-PIC timer 1: 5672 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 5: 73025 XT-PIC soundblaster 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 9: 23449 XT-PIC usb-uhci, eth0 12: 52670 XT-PIC PS/2 mouse 14: 478728 XT-PIC ide0 15: 3468358 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 ERR: 0
Where should I look next?
James Jones
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