Help Needed Configuring Modem For Linux

[Rubicone]

The modem I have is a US Robotics PCI w/voice hardware one. I tried reading through the link indicated below but, not having a technical mind to begin with, need help in sifting through the HOWTO to assist me for my specific case. If someone could take the time to provide a step by step guide that would be great. Since I don't have an Internet connection through RH 7.2 I don't know if I can download the file to a floppy, or should burn a CD.

http://nodevice.com/sections/Howto/Modem-HOWTO.html

The driver was located at the following site but they no longer seem to be there for some reason (If anyone knows of a mirror site that has the file then could you post a link to it?):

http://www.nutrend.com/tskb/drivers...-1_0-1_i386.rpm

http://lhd.zdnet.com/db/dispdriver.php3?DISP?1006 (Original Link Site)

TIA.

 

[AkumaBao]

What distro are you using? Also, some PCI modems are considered LinModems, and will be quite a pain to install. Try this link.

 

[Rubicone]

I am using RedHat 7.2 and my modem is a 3com USR 2976 56k Voice/Fax PCI Hardware one. (Could not get the hyperlinks working but if you copy and paste the URLs indicated in my initial post it will provide additional info).

 

[wjsulliv]

Please descibe the problem a little more clealy. Does you red hat find the modem, but can't use it?

If so:
I had a similar problem with my USR 5610. Which is the 56K Pro Performance PCI Hardware modem which advertises on the box it is compatable with linux and PCI.

For some reason everytime my system booted it couldn't find the modem. kppp would say "sorry, modem busy".

I don't remember where I got the solution but try the following sites:
linuxquestions.org
Or do a google search for "linux usr XXXX" where XXXX is your modem model number. You could always try and search under my number 5610 also, as some fixes will be universal.

Essentially I had to add a line to the bottom of my lilo (loading program) which specifially told the OS where the modem was. And then, bingo, I could dial-up.

But I couldn't browse the internet... That is a seperate problem. If that is your problem let me know.

 

[Rubicone]

I managed to find a drivers base at the following site should anyone need it: http://www.leadman.com/drivers/driverdetail.cfm?category=Modem

Also there is a simple guide to configuring a modem. Don't know how complete/accurate it is. Perhaps those who are more knowledgeable can offer their critical analysis on this. The link is provided below.

http://www.tdl.com/~netex/modem/modem.html

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Update: I guess I spoke (or should I say wrote too soon) regarding having found the drivers for my modem. The drivers I downloaded from the aforementioned site (in my previous post) I don't believe are actually for Linux since they have a setup program which I don't believe can be run within RedHat. Although I cannot be totally sure of this. Can someone confirm this for me? I also read something that hardware modems for Linux actually don't need drivers. Is this true? The site where I found this latest info is here http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/johngee/.

Here is some additional info which may or may not be useful:

I issued the command cat/proc/pci and among the output got the following for my modem.

Bus 2, device 9, function 0:
Serial controller: US Robotics/3Com 6K FaxModem Model 5610 (rev.1)
IRQ5
I/O at 0xb800[0xb807]

The actual model of my modem is 2976 so I don't know what if anything I should do about that.