[ale] Kppp - newbie in trouble

[Charles Shapiro]

Bummer man. Looks like your PCI internal modem (the PCI Diamond Supra
Express 56k sp i) is designed to work on Microsoft Windows only. Here's
( http://www.tdl.com/~netex/modem/modem.html ) the web reference I found
from a quick google search. Your modem is referenced at about the fifth
line down under "Diamond Multimedia Supra Modems".

This modem uses the CPU through special proprietary windows-only drivers
for much of its function. That's why it's so cheap to buy.
If you're feeling brave, you may be able to get it to work by installing
additional software on your linux box; this
(http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html) page could get you
started.  

Of course, the path of least resistance is to grit your teeth and  spend
$100 or so on a real (operating-system independent) modem. That modem
will also function with freeBSD and other interesting OSs, should you
decide to explore them. I've had good luck with the US Robotics
'Sportster' line.

-- CHS

On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 04:02, William Coles wrote:
> Greetings Hack-Heads and Nix Gurus!
> 
> Newbie here, looking for some pointers. I'm having trouble establishing a
> ppp connection when booted into Slackware (7.0). I've been reading through
> manuals and trying to figure things out on my own, but thus far to no avail.
> I'm starting to wonder if the version of Linux I'm running just won't talk
> to my modem. Before I go out and spend money on a new hardware external
> modem, I'm trying to see if I can make things work. Any advice would be
> greatly appreciated. Here's the low down so far:
> 
> My box:
> 
> Aesus board, Pentium II processor, 256 MB RAM, two HDD's. I'm dual booting
> Win2k and Slackware (on separate partitions, but both on the first HDD).
> Modem is a PCI Diamond Supra Express 56k sp i. In Windows, it is located on
> Intel 82371AB/EB PCI to ISA bridge (ISA Mode). It's on COM 2 IRQ 5 I/O
> 03E8 - 03EF. the driver is winnt\system32\drivers\modem.sys It is a plug and
> play modem as well.
> 
> 
> The Issue:
> 
> Install of Linux went smooth as silk. Boots fine, LILO does it's thing.
> Running X Window, using KDE and Kppp. No connectivity. Using Setup in Kppp,
> I have changed the device and than ran Query Modem with the following
> results:
> 
> dev/ttyS0
> dev/ttyS1
> dev/cua0
> 
> all report back "Modem ready" when running the query, but then when the
> Modem Query Results window shows up, all the ATI fields are empty. Also all
> other dev's report either 'Can't open modem' or 'Modem is busy'
> 
> I have tried going to Term as well. On the /dev/ttyS0, ttyS1 and cua0 it
> reports "initializing modem" than "modem ready" but when entering ATI
> commands, nothing happens.
> 
> What I've tried:
> 
> cat/proc/pci (as root) to see if I could find the port for the modem to do
> setserial/ttyS0 (or ttyS1 or cua0) uart 16550A port (enter port hex) IRQ 5
> 
> The only thing I found that might be it is "serial controller: unknown
> vendor unknown device. which listed a port hex code, but no IRQ. I tried to
> setserial using this port and using cua0. Still nada in Kppp.
> 
> Is there hope???
> 
> Any advice will be greatly appreciated. I'm loving my Linux, but it should
> would be better online...
> 
> Thanks for your time,
> 
> Bill
> 
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