Re: dial up

[Laurence Moore <lmoore@starwon.com.au>]

Hi Darren.

Darren Crotchett wrote:
> 
> in dmesg that says:
> 
> pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16450, no fifo
> 

I suspect this is your on-board uart as there is no fifo in it.
Try changing the IRQ of your modem card to 5 and the I/O Addr to 0x3e8.
I have a Hayes 5760 I think in an old motherboard and it is set to
irq 5. I don't think the modem is in Plug-N-Play mode as Linux couldn't
probe and detect it so there it has remained in Jumper configuration
mode. This modem appears as;

pccom2 at isa0 port 0x3e8/8 irq 5: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo

> I think that if I could know for sure that my modem was accepting
> commands, I could configure all of my .conf files by reading the man pages
> and all.
> 

I use tip to test basic modem functionality. I would suggest you
configure /etc/remote with a couple of lines like this;

modem1:\
      :dv=/dev/cua02:/br#115200:el=^C^S^Q^U^D:ie=%$:oe=^D:

> One more thing that I've tried was echoing commands from the command line
> directly into the modem.  For example, IIRC I tried ehco > ATDT#######
> /dev/cuaXX (where # is the phone number and XX is each port).  That didn't
> do anything either.
> 

I have observed some difficulty in using the cua device with ppp when
I'm running mgetty. I have instead used /dev/ttyXX for ppp and mgetty
which seems to work fine.

Cheers,

Larry.