Re: [TCLUG:5956] Modem with new motherboard

[Nate Carlson <natecars@infiniteloop.com>]

Go to RH 6.0. It should fix you up.

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Nate Carlson
the infinite loop
natecars@infiniteloop.com

On Tue, 11 May 1999, brady wrote:

> I got my new motherboard (I got the Tyan S1590S like Serge's) with a new
> K62-400.  It's pretty sweet - I went from 119 bogomips to 790, and Redhat
> booted right up.  Unfortunately it's not recognizing more than 64MB of mem,
> my CD or my modem.  I remember there's a setting to make Redhat recognize
> the other mem and I can live without the CD for now but the modem thing is
> annoying.  
> 
> Next week I'll be installing Redhat 6.0 but in the meantime I was wondering
> if anyone had any suggestions.  My modem was working on cua2 with my old
> mb.  It says it's on IRQ5 now so I did the following (at the advice of a
> posting I found on Deja) I changed the modem to point at ttyS3 instead of
> cua2 because I read that the use of cuaX is being depracated.
> 
> rm -f modem;ln -s ttyS3 modem
> 
> Then I ran this to point the modem at ttyS3:
> 
> setserial /dev/ttyS3 uart 16550A port 0x2E8 irq 5 spd_vhi
> 
> Does this make sense or am I misunderstanding something.  The modem isn't
> responding at all with this setting.
> 
> Thanks,
> Brady
> 
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