Shawn Fertch wrote:

> On Friday 31 August 2001 11:48, you wrote:
> > Use minicom and check
> >    1. if you get at working
> >    2. if you can manualy dial out
> >    3. if you can login to the ppp server
>
> I'm not familiar with minicom, I've always just used the pppsetup to test it.
>  When I run ppp-on, I don't hear the modem click to turn on or off.  I'm
> assuming that it's not detecting the modem still.
>
> >Sounds like an old 8 bit card.  Is it possible that the jumpers are set to
> >an IRQ that something else is using?  Most of the older ISA modems had an
> >IRQ range up to 7, could it be set the same as your parallel port or sound
> >card?
>
> Parallel is IRQ of 7.  Modem is 5.  All of the external serial ports are
> disabled, and as far as I can tell there isn't anything with this IRQ besides
> the modem.  In Windows, I can go into the control panel and look at the irq's
> assigned.  What's the equivalent for Linux and how can it be done if possible?
>

   Just a thought, but why not set the jumpers to something more standard, like
com 2 IRQ 3?
RS