From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from star2.net ([65.89.75.11] helo=BYHU.star2.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16i8BM-0008Pe-00 for ; Tue, 05 Mar 2002 01:12:16 -0500 Received: from 5086000415.eskimo.com (unverified [67.203.75.124]) by BYHU.star2.net (Vircom SMTPRS 5.1.200) with ESMTP id for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 01:01:18 -0500 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020304235138.009e98e0@pop3.norton.antivirus> X-Sender: myrow/pop3.eskimo.com@pop3.norton.antivirus X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 00:11:42 -0600 To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca From: Adam Myrow Subject: help wth a new Modem Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: I just replaced my ancient 33.6K Modem with a 56K PCI modem. It's made by somebody called Smartlink. Everything I have read indicates it's Linux compatible. It even has a Linux folder on the CD with a program to set it up for you. Of course, the program is rather old and required that I installed libc5 just to make it run. The Modem apparently has a chip set made by a company in Taiwan called Topic. It is a TP560 chip set. Anyway, I ran the program after getting things set up, and it just said "Topic PCI Modem not found." I went into Windows, which detected and installed the modem fine. It put it on Com5 however. Also, it won't connect any faster than 26,400 BPS. Anyway, I downloaded some instructions for manually configuring it under Linux. Wouldn't you know that the instructions were in a Winzip self-extractor as a MS Word Doc? Something is wrong with this picture! So, the instructions say to look at /proc/pci and to type a "setserial" line to set up a serial port to match the IRQ and I/O range of the modem. I tried this, and still nothing. Here is the output from "lspci -v" as well as the contents of /proc/ioports and /proc/pci. I think the big clue is the "disabled" in the lspci output, but I don't know what to do about it. Has anybody else dealt with these modems and gotten one to work? I really believe it to be a hardware modem because Windows shows the message "no driver files are required or have been loaded for this device." Here is the output from "lspci -v." 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440FX - 82441FX PMC [Natoma] (rev 02) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32 00:01.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 ISA [Natoma/Triton II] (rev 01) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 00:01.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 IDE [Natoma/Triton II] (prog-if 80 [Master]) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32 I/O ports at fcf0 [size=16] 00:13.0 Communication controller: TOPIC SEMICONDUCTOR Corp: Unknown device 0000 Subsystem: TOPIC SEMICONDUCTOR Corp: Unknown device 0000 Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11 I/O ports at fce8 [disabled] [size=8] 00:14.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c325 [ViRGE] (rev 05) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9 Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M] Expansion ROM at [disabled] [size=64K] Here is the contents of /proc/interrupts. CPU0 0: 21382 XT-PIC timer 1: 523 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 3: 677 XT-PIC serial 5: 7 XT-PIC sym53c416 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 10: 1 XT-PIC soundblaster 14: 1751 XT-PIC ide0 15: 3 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 21345 ERR: 0 Lastly, here is the contents of /proc/ioports. 0000-001f : dma1 0020-003f : pic1 0040-005f : timer 0060-006f : keyboard 0070-007f : rtc 0080-008f : dma page reg 00a0-00bf : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : fpu 0170-0177 : ide1 01f0-01f7 : ide0 0213-0213 : isapnp read 0220-023f : sym53c416 0240-024f : soundblaster 02f8-02ff : serial(auto) 0300-0303 : MPU-401 UART 0376-0376 : ide1 0378-037a : parport0 037b-037f : parport0 03c0-03df : vga+ 03f6-03f6 : ide0 03f8-03ff : bns 0620-0623 : sound driver (AWE32) 0a20-0a23 : sound driver (AWE32) 0a79-0a79 : isapnp write 0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1 0e20-0e23 : sound driver (AWE32) fce8-fcef : PCI device 151f:0000 (TOPIC SEMICONDUCTOR Corp) fcf0-fcff : Intel Corp. 82371SB PIIX3 IDE [Natoma/Triton II] fcf0-fcf7 : ide0 fcf8-fcff : ide1 Any suggestions are welcome as to how to get this modem up and running under Linux!