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Old 06-29-2009   #1 (permalink)
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modem assign to serial port

helo everybody

i have problem in modem configuration on slackware 2.6.21.5-smp. i configured a hylafax server. so i need the modem to assign the serial port. how is the process to setup i don't know. i refered my site and i m trying very much. when i run the command lspci -v the modem is showing.

this is the o/p of the lspci -v
01:00.0 Communication controller: U.S. Robotics USR5660A (USR265660A, USR5660A-BP) 56K PCI Faxmodem (rev 01)
Subsystem: U.S. Robotics Unknown device 010a
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9
Memory at ec000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
I/O ports at c000 [size=8]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

and when dmesg | grep ttyS running
then o/p will come

serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
00:09: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
00:0a: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A

i m just putting the modem into serial port and not connected in any telephone connection and fax machine.

plz help me how to assign the modem to serial port. How to configure test the modem is work not.
i m waiting for ur valuable replies.
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From your dmesg output ... it appears that your motherboard has two built-in serial ports ... which are being detected by the 8250 serial driver.

Your PCI modem card is not being detected ... probably because there is no driver loaded for it.
Possibly an HSF modem driver is needed.
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