Re: Modem query.

[Ruediger Berlich <nospam [at] suse.de>]

Hi,

> The Modem is internal, and to get it to work on Win98 I had to set it
> to Plug And Play via a jumper, as when I tried to specify which Com
> Port to use (and all the rest of it) It didnt work.
>
> So the question is, would I be better trying to get the modem to work
> as a Plug and Play device, perhaps by reading the Plug and PLay
> HOWTO, or setting the COM Port and DMA and IRQ witht he jumpers and
> reading the relevant HOWTO for that, noting that it may not then work
> with my Win98. Perhaps losing Internet capabilities on my computer
> altogether. Even if just for a limited time.

Have a look at the description at
http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/rb_internalmodem.html . A description of
how to setup an ISA-PnP device can be found in the 6.1 manual. Basically,
all you have to do nowadays is to run 'pnpdump -c > /etc/isapnp.conf', if
you have a recent version of the isapnptools (I think, 6.1 already came
with such a version).

BTW, I have made the best experiences with internal modems, when the
ISA-PnP functionality was switched _off_ . It is not just by chance that
ISA-PnP means 'Plug Pray' ... . If the modem doesn't run under Windows
without PnP functionality enabled, then you probably have some ressource
conflict.

Kind Regards,
Ruediger Berlich

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