super noob has modem woes

[irocz]

hello all i am a newbie who is having modem problems i have a zoom isa pnp modem and md 9 that i can not get to work (the modem that is) linux will tell me where it is but that is it,. mandrakes compatablity page and zoom told me to go stuff myself. is there any way to get it to work other than 5 pound sledgehammer and 100 dollar exterinal modem. keep in mind i am a super noob who stuck his finger in light socket 5 times before i learned not to do it again.:confused:

[TigerOC]

I think save yourself a great deal of anguish and get yourself an external. I switched a month or so ago and picked up an external for £25 which is much the same as an internal. The problem with internal modems is they are mostly software driven and finding drivers and installing them and actually getting the thing to work is a lottery at best.

[lazarus777]

it depends on how much you value your time :) There are ways to get some (not all!) internal winmodems to work with various distros of linux, i've been told; I tried with an actiontec and an old hayes, and had no luck; after about a month I broke down and bought myself a rather nice USR external. I'm still trying to get the internals to work on another machine; it's good practice and all, but if you want your net stuff, spend the money; you'll thank yourself

[irocz]

thanks for the imput

[irocz]

ok here we go extrnal modems are little pricey and im in budget cruch at the moment so if i could find one for about 30 bucks that
would be good.so im still working on my internal at the moment
i contacted zoom they sent me to LTModem Drivers for Linux got the driver installed and linux is detecting the modem now but at
/dev/ttySLTO how do get the right com port and also query after im done to test it

thanks in advance for your help:cool:

[mdwatts]

Any ISA modem should work in Linux.

Does it have jumpers or strictly PnP? If it doesn't have jumpers, then you should have a dos configuration utility include on the driver diskette/cd or downloadable from Zoom's website that you can use to change the irq and i/o the modem uses.

cat /proc/interrupts

cat /proc/ioports

Will tell you what resources are currently being used of which you can then use the dos configuration utility to disable PnP on the ISA modem and change the irq and i/o to whatever is available on your system.

I believe there is a ISA modem NHF that may help.

[irocz]

it has more jumpers than my mother board. i already had the isa pnp nhf printed out that's what has gotten me this far. linuxconfig
sees it and has it set at i/o 0 0-083f8 irq 4 under isa pnp but when i go to detect the modem it says it is at ttySLTO when it should be at ttyS3 or ttyS4

[mdwatts]

Com1 - /dev/ttyS0
Com2 - /dev/ttyS1
Com3 - /dev/ttyS2
Com4 - /dev/ttyS3

You should be using /dev/ttyS3.

ln -s /dev/ttyS3 /dev/ttySLT0

[irocz]

thanks for the info but i decided to get a external modem.got it hooked up and working in a mater of minutes in linux but heres the kicker i cant get kppp or gnome pap to work it dails connects then boots me off ( $%!*@$#%^) i am using the right user name and pass and it is not aol or anything like that

[irocz]

ha i finally got it to work yep i am here using linux but at only 9600 bps any one got a sugguestion on how to get going faster

just got it going at full speed

[TigerOC]

The speed can be set in the kppp setup.