modem problem

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Bob Hemus wrote:
> I have a Gateway P5 166 Mh processor, two 8 gig hard drives, a US
> Robotics 33.6 K modem.  I am trying to get any of COL 3.1.1, Cheapbytes
> Bow Tie 7.3, or Mandrake 8.2 installed on 3 gigs of one of the drives.
> I have 517 meg swap partition (Lonnie recomends).  Everything seems to
> work well except I can't get any of them to find my modem??  I just
> installed eD2.4 without a hitch.  Found the modem during the install and
> worked right off the bat. Won't the 2.4.?? kernel recognize my old
> modem?  With the Mandrake I get this message when I try to configure the
> modem "Modeprobe can't find module isa-pnp".

Is the modem PCI or ISA?  What does your modules.conf look like?  What
does the output from lsmod look like?  How are you trying to 'find' the
modem?

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