modem problem

[Net Llama!]

On 10/26/2002 08:27 PM, Bob Hemus wrote:
> "Net Llama!" wrote:
> 
>>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?
 >
> It is an internal US Robotics voice/fax 33.6 K modem.  Here is the
> /smod:
> 
> [robert at hemus robert]$ su -
> Password:
> 
> Welcome to your OpenLinux system!
> 
> [root at hemus root]# lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> serial                 43888   0  (autoclean)
> isa-pnp                26256   0  (autoclean) [serial]
> lp                      5344   0  (autoclean)
> nfs                    70784   1  (autoclean)
> lockd                  43488   1  (autoclean) [nfs]
> sunrpc                 58656   1  (autoclean) [nfs lockd]
> sr_mod                 12544   0
> cdrom                  25440   0  [sr_mod]
> ipx                    18512   0  (autoclean)
> nls_iso8859-1           2848   1  (autoclean)
> nls_cp437               4352   1  (autoclean)
> vfat                    9072   1  (autoclean)
> fat                    28608   0  (autoclean) [vf
> usb-storage            41232   0  (unused)
> parport_pc             17280   1
> parport                22464   1  [lp parport_pc]
> usb-uhci               21088   0  (unused)
> usbcore                46272   1  [usb-storage us
> es1370                 27472   0
> gameport                1296   0  [es1370]
> ide-scsi                7056   0
> scsi_mod               82400   2  [sr_mod usb-sto
> ide-floppy             10432   0
> keybdev                 1664   0  (unused)
> mousedev                3840   0  (unused)
> input                   3104   0  [keybdev moused
> sound                  52000   0  (unused)
> soundcore               3376   6  [es1370 sound]

And you're actually using all of these modules (like the ipx for 
example)??  What does the output from "lspci -v" look like, with respect 
to the modem?  How are you attempting to 'find' the modem?

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