[H-GEN] Modem under Mandrake 7.1

[David Underwood]

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Frank Brand wrote:

Sorry for double posting but I notice yo are probably using an ATX board
(PS/2 mouse, usb hub and Soundblaster soundcard).

If you have the modem set to IRQ 4, COMM 3 then you are using the same
IRQ as your serial port COMM1. This would not normally cause a conflict
unless you put something on the COMM1 port (or the USB port as the USB
port actually is just another serial port connection).

Do you have any other serial or USB devices connected?


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Frank,

I really don't understand really what is happening myself I really am new to
Linux. Thing is either under Mandrake or Win I am just running them 'as
installed' and have changed no hardware settings at all.

My system is

A Open AX63 Pro M/B ATX-AGP 133 FSB, PIII 667EB (coppermine), 128 MB SDRAM,
ASUS v3800 Riva TNT2 AGP X2, Creative SoundBlaster Live (PCI), Zoomtel i2829
voice/video/fax modem 56k V90 (PnP isa), NEC 40X CDROM, IBM ULTRA ATA HD 20
GB (Master), Western Digital ultra ATA HD (slave), Iomega internal ZIP 100,
Generic KB PS/2, Generic mouse PS/2, Epson Stylus 670. Probably don't need
to worry about the printer.

These are the only devices connected to , installed on the system.

I should mention though and I'm not sure if this is significant but when
installing Win I had to force it to ignore the modem until all the other
devices had been installed and configured. Ie by clicking cancel when it
indicated that it had found the modem, otherwise the sound card would not
function. AHA I hear you say.

By the way in checking the resources allocated to the com ports com1 = IRQ
4, com2 = IRQ 3, com3(modem) = IRQ 5, all allocated by win with no
intervention other than I mentioned above.

Win indicates no device conflicts, although there are a number of shared
IRQs (none of the above), which I believe is due to the manner in which the
PCI bus handles these things.

Sorry if this is overkill but as I mentioned I really am one of the
unintiated. So I'll just tell you what I can.

Regards

David Underwood.



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