[Plug] Seeking help with 3Com PCMIA modem card

[Daniel G Roberts <daniel.roberts@bms.com>]

Kyle

A bit more info on this machine I am having troubles with a PCMCIA modem
card
This is an AST Ascentia Laptop with an Internal/built winmodem on com1.
DOS claims that my PCMCIA modem card is on COM2

I looked through /var/log/messages and it is not clear to me that any
modem is located.
I have played around with trying different symlinks from /dev/modem to
/dev/cua*.  But no matter what I make the modem sym link point..when I
launch up minicom and try to dail out, the program already thinks the
modem is on line and tells me to hang up first!!..

dmesg  doesn't have any note about a modem..
a few tidbits it does mention are:
Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irg=4) is 16550A

then at the very end of dmesg there is something to the effect:
tty_io.c procoess minicom used obsolete /dev/cua1 update softeware to
use /dev/ttyS1


Still wondering what is going on..Thnaks for any and all help

Dan


yle Burton mortis@voicenet.com
Tue, 26 Oct 1999 08:46:48 -0400 (EDT)





The /dev/cua[0-3] devices are supposedly deprecated.  Instead, use one
of the /dev/ttyS[0-3] devices.  Either use dmesg, or look at your
/var/log/messages and see what the modem gets assigned as during the
init process, it'll probably be /dev/ttyS1 (if your modem is on COM2).

Symlink /dev/modem to /dev/ttyS1 -- but if you do this, make sure all
of the software that you have that's goin to use the modem uses
/dev/modem
and none of it uses /dev/ttyS1.

Daniel G Roberts daniel.roberts@bms.com
Mon, 25 Oct 1999 22:00:15 -0400

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HelloAll
I just got my hands on a 3Com Megahertz cellular Pcmcia modem card which
I am
trying to use with Redhat..but so far with no luck.

Couple questions.
When using the modem configuration tool within control-panel..the only
devices that show up are of the /dev/ttyS* flavor and NOT of the type
/dev/cua* for this modem
So..I went to /dev and made a link from /dev/cua* to modem and tried
using
minicom to dail out.  My modem is on COM2
Well I had no luck.  I couldn't even raise the dial tone by hand.  When
I
tried to dial a number in the directory, I was not allowed because
minicom
clamied that I was already online..eventhough I was not.

So, how do I go about properly configuring this pcmcia card?? I tried
start/stop of the pcmcia daemon..but no luck.  ]

Thanks for any and all help!!
Dan






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