This is just a guess, but might configuring extended serial options into the kernel help? Greg On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 08:29:59PM -0600, Adam Myrow wrote: > Well, I've looked all over the web for information about this modem and I > still get that it should work in Linux with a simple setserial > command. However, it just doesn't. I am beginning to wonder if they've > made a modem designed to trick you into thinking it works in Linux? I'm > just getting suspicious. I even tried manually setting the base address to > 03E8 in Windows hoping to force the modem to show up at com3. It refused > to let me change the IRQ from 11. Windows took the change just fine and > moved the modem to com3, but as soon as I booted Linux, it was back to fce8 > again. In fact, Windows had it set to 108. IRQ 11 must be hard-coded or > something. I really don't know what to think. I paid around $40 for the > thing, so I expected it to work. It also has DOS configuration tools, but > I haven't been able to figure them out since they are hard to use with > speech. Maybe that's what I should try to do just to convince myself that > it can work outside of Windows. > > I knew about the U.S. Robotic's modem, but was unable to find it > anywhere. All they seem to list is ISDN modems. This was the only one I > could find that wasn't ISA but still claimed to work in Linux without > special drivers. I am going to ask on newsgroups and such if they've ever > run into this beast. If I can't get it working eventually, I guess I'll > put back my old 33.6 modem and demand my money back! > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
