[ale] Winmodem

[Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam]

Hi Sunil,

The reason they are caled winmodem is because they work only with windows. They do not have a UART. The driver takes a part of the job of the UART. I really doubt whether you will be able to get it to work (unless you are trying to write the driver for it, in which case I don't think you will be sending this message :)). Try to get a modem that says will work with DOS or better still get a external modem. AFAIK, that is your best bet.

Regards,
Vaidhy

On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 08:34:18AM -0400, Sunil Patel wrote:
> I have a winmodem that I am trying to configure.  I have noted down the
> com port and IRQ it is uses from windows98.  I then used "setserial
> /dev/ttyS3 port 0xfff2 irq 10" to set IRQ and PORT.  Then when I run
> statserial /dev/ttyS3 command I get the output as follow:
> 
> Device: /dev/ttyS3
> 
> Signal  Pin  Pin  Direction  Status  Full
> Name    (25) (9)  (computer)         Name
> -----   ---  ---  ---------  ------  -----
> FG       1    -      -           -   Frame Ground
> TxD      2    3      out         -   Transmit Data
> RxD      3    2      in          -   Receive  Data
> RTS      4    7      out         1   Request To Send
> CTS      5    8      in          1   Clear To Send
> DSR      6    6      in          1   Data Set Ready
> GND      7    5      -           -   Signal Ground
> DCD      8    1      in          1   Data Carrier Detect
> DTR     20    4      out         1   Data Terminal Ready
> RI      22    9      in          1   Ring Indicator
> 
> However, when I use kpp to dial out.  It complains about not being able
> to find that device.  I tried using ppp scripts and the problem is
> same.  Should I try any other thing to make it work or does this mean
> that this winmodem will never work with Linux.  Your help will be
> appreciated.
> 
> --
> Thanks
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