Shawn Fertch wrote: > On Friday 31 August 2001 11:48, you wrote: > > Use minicom and check > > 1. if you get at working > > 2. if you can manualy dial out > > 3. if you can login to the ppp server > > I'm not familiar with minicom, I've always just used the pppsetup to test it. > When I run ppp-on, I don't hear the modem click to turn on or off. I'm > assuming that it's not detecting the modem still. > > >Sounds like an old 8 bit card. Is it possible that the jumpers are set to > >an IRQ that something else is using? Most of the older ISA modems had an > >IRQ range up to 7, could it be set the same as your parallel port or sound > >card? > > Parallel is IRQ of 7. Modem is 5. All of the external serial ports are > disabled, and as far as I can tell there isn't anything with this IRQ besides > the modem. In Windows, I can go into the control panel and look at the irq's > assigned. What's the equivalent for Linux and how can it be done if possible? > Just a thought, but why not set the jumpers to something more standard, like com 2 IRQ 3? RS