Florin Iucha wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 07:56:50AM -0500, Shawn Fertch wrote:
> > On Thursday 30 August 2001 11:32, you wrote:
> > > I'm trying to get my internal ISA modem to work.  It's a US Robotics 56k
> > > modem.  The it's assigned an IRQ of 5, Com 4 under Win2k.  I recently
> > > reloaded my box and assigned the modem to ttyS3 under the Slackware 8
> > > setup. Is there something more I need to do to get it to work?  I have the
> > > ISA PnP module loaded as well.
> > >
> > > Would this be in the modem how-to or in the ppp how-to also?
> >
> > A little more info on this:
> >
> > When I initially did  setserial -bg /dev/ttyS?  it cam back showing that I
> > only had one serial port of ttyS2 with an irq of 4.
> >
> > So then I tried to do setserial -irq 5 -uart 16550A /dev/ttyS3 and it added
> > it in.  I'm no further along now than I was initially.  /dev/ttyS3 is linked
> > to /dev/modem as well.
> >
> > I have both of my external serial port connections disabled in the bios, as
> > well as non PnP OS selected.
> >
> > The modem has jumpers on it, but I've not touched them from the factory
> > settings.  It's an older ISA 56k modem, which I think might be an 8-bit card.
> >  It only goes into the slot closest to the back of the case, not both like
> > some of the other ISA cards.

  Might be a shared slot.  Do you have a PCI card in the next slot?  If so
that could be the problem
RS