ISA US Robotics modem desperation - MINICOM 'hangs' ?

[Robster]

What is causing this strange behaviour in MINICOM?

US Robotics ISA modem (NOT A WINMODEM! :)) is set up on /dev/ttyS2 (COM3). The UART value is set to 16550A as instructed in the NHFs etc.

I can't get it to dial. I've tried using MINICOM to test the dial-out commands etc but MINICOM acts weird.

From a terminal, I start MINICOM (no parameters). Comes up, complains that the config file isn't there and is using defaults, then basically does nothing!

Some modem commands appear on their own - VERY slowly - like one character per 5 seconds - but it isn't me typing. The chars are appearing on their own.

If I actually try and type anything through minicom there's a delayed reaction of about 30 seconds before the character even appears. Even then, it just doesn't accept commands - nothing.

I've reinstalled Mandrake 7.2 so many times over the past week. I actually got the modem to dial out correctly last week (I had handshake problems but that's another thread) - but I cannot for the life of me get this bugger to work now. I'm installing with exactly the same configuration each time, so why the different results?

Does anyone have any idea what is causing this odd behavious?

Thanks in advance
Rob

[whitehorse]

Try running minicom -s from the command line. This puts minicom in setup mode where you can edit your communication paramaters and save them in a default file for minicom.

What model number is the modem?

I'm running mandrake 7.0 with a USR 840-1 (Sporster 33.6) and I have noticed that some programs will change some of the modems parameters....Kvoice for instance...

[ 14 March 2001: Message edited by: whitehorse ]

[Robster]

Damn I'm a fool.

I had the wrong bloody IRQ number assigned in /etc/isapnp.conf

Why is it that you always notice these things AFTER you've posted?

Thanks for the advice though.