[SWLUG] Re: Discuss digest, Vol 1 #255 - 6 msgs

[Foeh Mannay]

Drivers? For an external serial modem?


Uuuummmmmmmmmm.....



About the shutting down thing.... my money's on something surrounding the RAM 
- my FreeBSD server used to reboot just about daily - would stop for a while 
if I swapped out one of the DIMMs. Amazingly for a ufs(?) slice it never once 
needed a manual fsck, the auto one always did it, so it never had any real 
impact :)


On Wednesday 07 May 2003 3:22 pm, Gareth Bowker wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 15:13, Rhys Sage wrote:

> > I'm still thinking about that external modem of mine. It has a 9pin
> > and 25pin connection. The 9 pin is a very sloppy fit and my Linux box
> > won't take the 25pin (wrong gender). The 25pin fits snugly on my
> > PC and Win 98 recognises what it is. Linux can't recognise it so I
> > don't know whether the modem is stuffed or it's just the 9-pin plug
> > that's stuffed. My laptop has the correct 25-pin port but as I'm
> > running NT4 on the laptop, there's a severe driver problem. I learnt
> > to let NT4 to do what it wants, when it wants - it's too stable to
> > complain about its lack of drivers.

>

> um, the wrong gender 25-pin port on your computer - it's not the
> parallel port is it? The parallel port is a female connector, 25 pins
> and you most probably don't want to connect the modem up to this...
>

> How do you know that Linux won't pick up the modem? What have you done
> that gives you that impression? Have you sent it any AT commands or
> suchlike? There are a fair few things that it could be, if you can tell
> us what's not worked it'll help narrow things down considerably.
>

> Gareth