[Nottingham] accessing pci bus with kde and mepis

[James Gibbon]

"Sarah Swindell" wrote:

> The modem is 'ready' when I try and dial out (it was not ready or busy 
> before) with KPPP, but takes a long time (forever?) to initialise.
> From looking on Linuxquestions.org (newbie page), I've got the idea it's 
> because I've got an onboard LAN card (disabled through the BIOS) and this is 
> confusing KPPP. I might well be wrong.

Well - I've used a few different versions of KPPP with a few 
different boxes under a few different flavours of Linux - in all 
cases, without exception it worked happily with an ethernet 
interface up and running at the same time.


> any ideas how to encourage KPPP into initialising the modem (it's an 
> internal Rockwell HCF 56K data fax RTAD modem - I've matched the setup 
> details that win98 has given me about the modem to put into KPPP)
> 
> ls -l /dev|grep modem     gives me:
> lrwxrwxrwx l root root 9 2004-0221 05.24 modem -> /dev/tty0
> 

Most versions of Linux don't natively support HCF modems - you may
need to install (possibly compile) a driver separately.  Lots more
information at www.linuxant.com.  Note that the free version you
can download from there is crippled, but you can find a
pre-crippled version if you dig around on the net.

The hcf driver install does this:

ls -l /dev/modem
lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root            8 Feb 21 11:11 /dev/modem -> ttySHCF0
skynet:/home/jg 19$ 

Cheers
James