Re: Silly modem problem

[Matt Scott <mmscott@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I figured it out.  I do not have a mouse hooked to the machine but I did
at one time.  GPM was using serial port.  The moment I disabled it all was
well.  I shut GPM down amd got rid of the mouse symbolic link.  Thanks
for the help.

Matt Scott
mmscott@cs.wmich.edu

On Sun, 12 Mar 2000 awilliam@whitemice.org wrote:

> > I have a 56K external USR modem that works great on one machine 
> running
> > Red Hat 6.1.  In fact, I am using it at this very moment to send this
> > e-mail.  But as soon as I move it over to another box I have problems.
> > This other machine is also runnung RH 6.1.  If I type 'at' I get no
> > response from the modem.  However, if I type 'atdt' I get no textual
> > response but I can hear a dialtone through the modem speaker.  I can 
> even
> > have it dial a number and it will connect but I get no text printed on 
> the
> > screen.
> 
> This sounds like a very classic IRQ conflict.
> 
> > Like I said above, the same modem and cable work great on the machine 
> I am
> > using now.  I have tried both serial ports and they both behave the 
> same.
> > I have the port I am using set to 3f8, IRQ 4 in the bios and setserial
> > confirms that.
> 
> setserial will happily permit IRQ conflicts.  Can you set the BIOS of 
> the machines to protect "IRQ 4" for legacy or ISA devices that way no 
> maurauding PnP devices can steal it.
> 
> > One peculiar thing I did notice is that both the terminal ready and 
> clear
> > to send lights are lit all the time when the modem is hooked up to the
> > problem machine.  When it is hooked to the good machine only clear to 
> send
> > is lit if the modem is not in use.
> 
> So this is an external modem?  Are you using the same cable?
> 
> 
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