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Help,
        I'm sure this is very trivial but I cannot even figure out how to
configure a new modem in Linux.  Could someone tell me how to install a new
modem on Linux?  Like how you link a modem to cua1 and where you tell it
IRQ's ...  Does this have to get configured in the kernel?

-thank you very much
-andrew

Here's a reply to my previous posting.  It should set you in the right
direction:

For a modem, you don't need to install anything except the software
that will drive the modem (which is undoubtedly already installed),
whether it's seyon, or minicom, or dip, or ppp-demon, or whatever.

When you start to set up the modem: If it's on your first serial port
(in msdos, called com1), then you use either /dev/cua0 or /dev/ttyS0.
If it's on your second serial port (in msdos, called com2), then you
use either /dev/cua1 of /dev/ttyS1.

The business about choosing between /dev/cua0 or /dev/ttyS0 is usually
your choice; for most things (perhaps for all things), they're
equivalent.  My modem is at /dev/cua1, so to avoid confusing myself
(since I never remember this stuff), I created a symlink to it called
/dev/modem by giving the command

  ln -s /dev/cua1 /dev/modem

and then I just always set things up to use /dev/modem.

Phil Hirschhorn

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[ pnpmodem 1K ]
    Get isapnptools from somewhere like sunsite.unc.edu in the debian
distribution.
Do pnpdump >/etc/isapnp.conf
Edit /etc/isapnp.conf and uncomment the desired lines...... e.g.
(IO 0 (BASE 0x03e8))
#       IRQ 4.
#             Low true, edge sensitive interrupt
(INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE -E)))
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#     End dependent functions
(ACT Y)
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        Next run "isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf" and setserial, would suggest an irq
be chosen that doesn't conflict with an existing serial port. You can place
the commands in your /etc/rc.d/rc.serial file so it takes care of it all
during boot up. Below is what I've set mine to .........
        My modem reported COM3 IRQ4 port 0x3e8 under dos install.
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# Latest 2.1 kernels (2.0.3x ???) needs spd_normal    
/bin/setserial /dev/cua2 port 0x3e8 irq 5 uart 16550A skip_test  spd_vhi
/sbin/isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
        There are a number of GUI setups that make it easy, I use xisp, but
here is a script I used previously.
pppd connect 'chat -v "" ATDT<number> CONN "" Name: <login> word: <passwd>' \
debug /dev/cua2 57600 debug modem defaultroute noipdefault
tail -f -n 10 /var/log/messages
        The "tail" above lets you monitor progress of the connection and can
be terminated by ^C.

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