[NTLUG:Discuss] Modrem

[agoats]

Modems get messy... you need to find what the modem is set to by either
the bios or some other modem scanning software (i.e. windoze). Most of
the internal modems went plug-n-pray, so which irq, com number, etc it's
using is hard to tell.

Once you find out what the settings are, and what type of UART it has,
you then need to set the modem settings. Best place I've found is in
/etc/rc.d/rc.local (I'm running Slackware, so you need to find the
equivalent on your system). 

The full format of the command is:

/sbin/setserial /dev/modem uart 16550A port 0xD800 irq 9 

with /dev/modem linked to /dev/ttyS0 as mine was.

 
This will allow anything using device "modem" to connect to the actual
device ttyS0 and dial out or whatever. 

The above has worked for Practical Peripherals, USR Robotics, ActionTec,
Hayes and other internal modems. 

Alvin