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first off, I have just started playing with Linux.  I am trying to break away from the
tyranny of Micro$oft.  I have an internal Cardinal 28.8 plug and play modem.  My
question is; does any know if there is a linux driver available so I could use this
modem under Linux?

Any help/comments would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

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: first off, I have just started playing with Linux.  I am trying to break away from the
: tyranny of Micro$oft.  I have an internal Cardinal 28.8 plug and play modem.  My
: question is; does any know if there is a linux driver available so I could use this
: modem under Linux?
:

What you'll probably have to end up doing is initalizing the modem in dos then
booting to Linux via Loadlin or something. Plug N' Pray will get you like
that.

You have to make sure that there is no hardware conflict
of overlapping interrupts or io/addresses but I assume that this
is ok since you ran another system on it before.

check in /var/log/messages
that shows you the setup of your hardware.

the scripts in /etc/rc.d run at system initialization and the
serial iniatilization is in rc.serial.

I had to put a line in there since the autodetect did not sense
the right values and I had a conflict: Talking to my modem was very very
slow.
The conflict was that the first and third com port had the same
interrupt.
I put
$(SETSERIAL) /dev/cua2 port 0x3e8 irq 5

in the rc.serial, then it worked fine.

Your hardware is different I assume, so don't use this line.

There may be dialer programs ( I have not checked that far in linux )
but you access your modem thru programs. A very simple one is cu,
or get kermit. I got kermit from the internet and used it to
debug the modem serial port.

Read the serial howto
If you want to run ppp, read the howto's there or follow the
usenet group comp.os.linux.setup, I saw several nice messages of
how to do it.

If you need more help, just email.

Sa.

Quote:>first off, I have just started playing with Linux.  I am trying to break away from the
>tyranny of Micro$oft.  I have an internal Cardinal 28.8 plug and play modem.  My
>question is; does any know if there is a linux driver available so I could use this
>modem under Linux?

When installing Linux Slackware 3.0, one of the final steps prompts to set up
the modem.  You specify the serial device and it creates a symbolic link from
the serial port to /dev/modem.  For instance, I have my modem on the second
serial port (COM2:).  I tell it that the device is /dev/ttyS01 (the second
serial port).  Then, when any software prompts for the modem device, I just
tell it /dev/modem.  Easy, huh?

Now as for drivers ... Linux doesn't have drivers for typical modems ... you
just have to tell the communication programs what device to dial out on (yes:
/dev/modem).

Thomas Griffing

I have trouble with PnP in my machine. Actually I use
Supraexpress 288 i PnP, which does not have a permant COM port
address, so linux can't find which port is using the modem.
Any suggestion?

Thanks
Lan