Not being about to get mwavem installed (until I update automake), I decided
to take the advice of someone here and just hook a USR external modem to the
Thinkpad. I cannot speak to the modem.

I've tried setting the "Device" to /dev/ttyS0, S1, S2 via KPPP and nothing
happens. I get "modem busy."

/dev/modem -> ttyS1. I don't know for sure but would this be the internal
winmodem? My guess is SO is the external. (How can you find out?) /dev/modem
does NOT give the "busy" answer, but I get nothing else... and didn't expect
to from a winmodem. I kind of expected "modem does not respond."

Anyway I tried them all with the "terminal" program and I can't even get an
"OK" after an AT. the ATI commands also reply "modem busy" except for S1
which sends the messages but gets nothing back.

What am I missing here?

Thanks

AC

Al C. wrote:
>
.. . . .
> Anyway I tried them all with the "terminal" program and I can't even get an
> "OK" after an AT. the ATI commands also reply "modem busy" except for S1
> which sends the messages but gets nothing back.
>
> What am I missing here?
>
> Thanks
>
> AC

setserial -bg dev/ttyS?
That's if setserial is installed, fuser seems to be taking
setserial's place but I've used setserial command to find those hiding
modems and to set the serial port IRQ if things have been munged.

--

Bud wrote:

> Al C. wrote:
>>
> . . . .
>> Anyway I tried them all with the "terminal" program and I can't even get an
>> "OK" after an AT. the ATI commands also reply "modem busy" except for S1
>> which sends the messages but gets nothing back.
>>
>> What am I missing here?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> AC
>
> setserial -bg dev/ttyS?
> That's if setserial is installed, fuser seems to be taking
> setserial's place but I've used setserial command to find those hiding
> modems and to set the serial port IRQ if things have been munged.
>
> --

/dev/ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq -3) is a 16550A

I suppose that means Slack is not even seeing the external modem. What now?

Al

On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 22:43:54 -0700, Al C. wrote:

>> setserial -bg dev/ttyS?
>> That's if setserial is installed, fuser seems to be taking
>> setserial's place but I've used setserial command to find those hiding
>> modems and to set the serial port IRQ if things have been munged.
>>
>> --
>
> /dev/ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq -3) is a 16550A
>
> I suppose that means Slack is not even seeing the external modem. What now?
>
> Al

is it serial or usb modem?
best thing is to install wvdial, and then start wvdialconf - it will
search for the modem on all the available modem devices (serial, usb...),
so if there is a working modem, it should find it.

i.

"Al C." <no.spam.acanton@adams-blake.no.spam.com> wrote:
>
>/dev/ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq -3) is a 16550A
>
>I suppose that means Slack is not even seeing the external modem. What now?

A few years back I had a TP 600E.

The problem is probably that the serial port is not enabled.
The ThinkPad allows several sections to be disabled, to conserve
battery power. I don't remember the exact details, but it seems
that the Infrared port and the serial port use the same
hardware, and you can have one or the other enabled.

Check the BIOS setup; however, enabling it requires a utility
from IBM that runs only under Windows. It's been 5-6 years
since I was interested in that, so there might well be a way to
do it without the IBM utility by now. (There was a program
which supposedly did much of what the IBM utility did, but it
wouldn't yet turn on the serial port at the time I tried it.)

Use google...

--
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On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 02:09:07 -0800, Floyd L. Davidson wrote:

> "Al C." <no.spam.acanton@adams-blake.no.spam.com> wrote:
>>
>>/dev/ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq -3) is a 16550A
>>
>>I suppose that means Slack is not even seeing the external modem. What now?
>
> A few years back I had a TP 600E.
>
> The problem is probably that the serial port is not enabled.
> The ThinkPad allows several sections to be disabled, to conserve
> battery power. I don't remember the exact details, but it seems
> that the Infrared port and the serial port use the same
> hardware, and you can have one or the other enabled.
>
> Check the BIOS setup; however, enabling it requires a utility
> from IBM that runs only under Windows. It's been 5-6 years
> since I was interested in that, so there might well be a way to
> do it without the IBM utility by now. (There was a program
> which supposedly did much of what the IBM utility did, but it
> wouldn't yet turn on the serial port at the time I tried it.)
>
> Use google...

The utility is tpctl

http://www.icewalkers.com/Linux/Soft...040/tpctl.html

Just one of many googled links.
The serial port is indeed disabled. I spent my vacation trying to get a
digital camera that had only a serial port connection working on my old
think pad before I figured this out.

good luck

"Al C." <no.spam.acanton@adams-blake.no.spam.com> wrote in message news:<10np4kvoc22b48c@news20.forteinc.com>...

> /dev/ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq -3) is a 16550A
> I suppose that means Slack is not even seeing the external modem. What now?
You do not "see" a modem. It does not require a module/driver. If you
are able to use your communication port(s) on your computer, that's
it. The rest is configuration of a userspace dialing program.

You should focus on getting your com ports functional (if not). If
there is no problem on your com ports, you won't have a problem
"see"ing your modem.

- dfisek

Floyd L. Davidson <floyd@barrow.com> wrote:
> "Al C." <no.spam.acanton@adams-blake.no.spam.com> wrote:
>>
>>/dev/ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq -3) is a 16550A I suppose that means Slack is
>>not even seeing the external modem. What now?
> The problem is probably that the serial port is not enabled.
[..]

> Check the BIOS setup; however, enabling it requires a utility
> from IBM that runs only under Windows.

If this is via the serial port, yes, this is disabled by default. Instead of
via BIOS, there is a small tool distributed by the manufacturer, 'PS2'. By
help of that command-line tool, quite a lot of settings can be changed
(enable the serial port, disable the IR port, switch to another IO-address,
etc.).

Funny enough, this tool did not run with freedos - it needed some MSDOS 6.22
(with that one, one cannot maintain big harddrives any more), or a Win98
boot floppy (which is MSDOS as well).

So, it won't need Winx to enable the serial port. Just keep a floppy around,
or a floppy-image in linux, to be 'dd'-d as needed, for booting to DOS, in
order to maintain some parameters of the 600 with the 'ps2' tool.

"Al C." typed:
> /dev/modem -> ttyS1. I don't know for sure but would this be the
> internal winmodem? My guess is SO is the external. (How can you find
> out?) /dev/modem does NOT give the "busy" answer, but I get nothing
> else... and didn't expect to from a winmodem. I kind of expected
> "modem does not respond."

Is the serial port on your thinkpad enabled from within the BIOS? I
may be wrong, but on most thinkpads, it is disabled.

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