modem is busy??

[Soccerman]

I don't understand what could be using the modem! I'm running Linux Mandrake 7.2, I just got the modem running (it wasn't too hard, its a PCI hardware modem), and now I want to connect to the net so I can get Aureal Vortex 2 drivers, as well as get a newer kernel.

so what am I doing wrong?

[Tyr-7BE]

Does it give you an error message? Device or Resource Busy? If that's it, search the forums for that, because that's asked very often.

[bdg1983]

'Modem is busy' usually is related to a resource conflict. IRQ or I/O

Recheck your configuration.

A few suggestions.

To List the Resources Used by your System

cat /proc/pci
cat /proc/interrupts
cat /proc/ioports

ISA PnP

pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf

[Soccerman]

ahh ok, I found out my USB ports were conflicting. so I disabled them in the BIOS (I'm not using them right now, though I'll probably want to use them later, so this is just a temporary solution).

the modem is working like a charm now! I'm typing this from Netscape in Linux. thanks for the help, but I'm not done asking questions yet!