I just replaced my ancient 33.6K Modem with a 56K PCI modem. It's made by
somebody called Smartlink. Everything I have read indicates it's Linux
compatible. It even has a Linux folder on the CD with a program to set it
up for you. Of course, the program is rather old and required that I
installed libc5 just to make it run. The Modem apparently has a chip set
made by a company in Taiwan called Topic. It is a TP560 chip set. Anyway,
I ran the program after getting things set up, and it just said "Topic PCI
Modem not found." I went into Windows, which detected and installed the
modem fine. It put it on Com5 however. Also, it won't connect any faster
than 26,400 BPS. Anyway, I downloaded some instructions for manually
configuring it under Linux. Wouldn't you know that the instructions were
in a Winzip self-extractor as a MS Word Doc? Something is wrong with this
picture! So, the instructions say to look at /proc/pci and to type a
"setserial" line to set up a serial port to match the IRQ and I/O range of
the modem. I tried this, and still nothing. Here is the output from
"lspci -v" as well as the contents of /proc/ioports and /proc/pci. I think
the big clue is the "disabled" in the lspci output, but I don't know what
to do about it. Has anybody else dealt with these modems and gotten one to
work? I really believe it to be a hardware modem because Windows shows the
message "no driver files are required or have been loaded for this device."
Here is the output from "lspci -v."
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440FX - 82441FX PMC [Natoma] (rev 02)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
00:01.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 ISA [Natoma/Triton II]
(rev 01)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
00:01.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 IDE [Natoma/Triton
II] (prog-if 80 [Master])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
I/O ports at fcf0 [size=16]
00:13.0 Communication controller: TOPIC SEMICONDUCTOR Corp: Unknown device 0000
Subsystem: TOPIC SEMICONDUCTOR Corp: Unknown device 0000
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
I/O ports at fce8 [disabled] [size=8]
00:14.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c325 [ViRGE] (rev 05) (prog-if
00 [VGA])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9
Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K]
Here is the contents of /proc/interrupts.
CPU0
0: 21382 XT-PIC timer
1: 523 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
3: 677 XT-PIC serial
5: 7 XT-PIC sym53c416
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
10: 1 XT-PIC soundblaster
14: 1751 XT-PIC ide0
15: 3 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
LOC: 21345
ERR: 0
Lastly, here is the contents of /proc/ioports.
0000-001f : dma1
0020-003f : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0070-007f : rtc
0080-008f : dma page reg
00a0-00bf : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : fpu
0170-0177 : ide1
01f0-01f7 : ide0
0213-0213 : isapnp read
0220-023f : sym53c416
0240-024f : soundblaster
02f8-02ff : serial(auto)
0300-0303 : MPU-401 UART
0376-0376 : ide1
0378-037a : parport0
037b-037f : parport0
03c0-03df : vga+
03f6-03f6 : ide0
03f8-03ff : bns
0620-0623 : sound driver (AWE32)
0a20-0a23 : sound driver (AWE32)
0a79-0a79 : isapnp write
0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1
0e20-0e23 : sound driver (AWE32)
fce8-fcef : PCI device 151f:0000 (TOPIC SEMICONDUCTOR Corp)
fcf0-fcff : Intel Corp. 82371SB PIIX3 IDE [Natoma/Triton II]
fcf0-fcf7 : ide0
fcf8-fcff : ide1
Any suggestions are welcome as to how to get this modem up and running
under Linux!
