[KLUG Members] RedHat 9 doesn't see USR internal modem

[Bob Kanaley]

Adam,

>Is it a dual boot install?  If so what does Win32 say the modem is
>*exactly*?  Is this device a PCI card? How many tty devices appear in
>the dmesg ("dmesg | grep tty"); are you certain it doesn't appear?

The situation:
At 5:15 on his way home, the boss asked why RedHat 9 wouldn't work with his
internal modem to connect to yeachhh, AOL.

I believe that this was a RedHat 5.X box the boss took home to learn Linux
long ago and far away. Thus, it could be a hardware compatibility issue
(might be an ISA card). I have never seen the machine.

I believe the grandson blew away the working 5.2 config (before determining
modem parameters).

The boss said that the RedHat 9 install reported a generic modem but he
couldn't get RedHat 9 to talk to it.

I suggested checking /var/log/dmesg to see exactly what RedHat found.

He wrote it down.

Although I have never used it, I suggested he might try kudzu, but he hasn't
reported back what he found.

I suspect that there might be a modem configuration applet but I haven't a
clue how to get to it in RH9.

Bob

Robert V. Kanaley
Manager Information Systems
Agdia, Inc.
rvk@agdia.com
http://www.agdia.com