[NBLUG/talk] A couple of questions

[ME]

>
>> When you had the modem in windows, do you know what "Com port" it used?
>> (A, B, C, D or maybe 1,2,3,4)
>>
>> Is the modem an internal or external connected to a serial port?
>
> Internal
>
>>
>> If the modem is internal, is it PCI or ISA or something else?
>
> PCI

A useful tool for this is a command line tool called "lspci"

It will list all of the PCI devices that Linux knows about. One of these
may be the modem.

What does this give you:
# lspci

Or if you are lucky, it may be reported as a modem. It may have modem as
part of the name. You really wat to pay special attention to anything that
claims to be a modem or "unknown".

Might have more ideas once we know what it advertises itself as.

>> If you still have windows installed, you can find out what resources
>> windows thought the modem was using. If you have this, find out what IO
>> ports (something like 0x03f8) and IRQ (like a number from 2-15.)
>
> I printed up the system information as suggested in the installation
> guide,
> but it doesn't tell me any info about the modem except No resources used.
> I will have to put the windows hard drive back in and see if I can
> determine
> what the settings are.  I used to know all of this on my old 486 computer
> since I had to tweak it so much, but not so with the newer one - don't
> know
> nearly as much the configuration.