I'll have to pull the card out and find what modem type it is. -- A message from the system administrator: "I've upped my priority, now up yours!" On Sun, 25 May 2003, Adam Myrow wrote: > I prefer ISAPNP in the kernel myself. It works IMHO much better than the > old ISAPNP utilities. You can look in /proc/isapnp for its output, and it > handles things fairly nicely. Some modems will automatically get set up > if they are on a standard IRQ. On the other hand, I remember something > about Rockwell modems not being fully functional in Linux. Here is what > the Modem-Howto says on the subject. Is your modem perhaps one of these > older Rockwell modems that it is talking about? > > 2.9.2. Rockwell (RPI) Drivers > > Some older Rockwell chips need Rockwell RPI (Rockwell Protocol > Interface) drivers for compression and error correction. They can > still be used with Linux even though the driver software works only > under MS Windows. This is because the MS Windows software (which you > don't have) does only compression and error correction. If you are > willing to operate the modem without compression and error correction > then it's feasible to use it with Linux. To do this you will need to > disable RPI by sending the modem (via the initialization string) a > "RPI disable" command each time you power on your modem. On my old > modem this command was +H0. Not having data compression available > makes it slower to get webpages but is just as fast when downloading > files that are already compressed. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
