Re: PCI modem

[Michael Merten <ironfoot@popaccount.com>]

On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 10:12:27AM -0500, Robert Rati wrote:
> I was just given a PCI modem by a friend of mine and he calims it's a PNP
> modem but not a winmodem.  I hope he's right, but I don't know how to tell
> if it's a winmodem.  Debian sees the modem when I cat /proc/pci and calls
> it a serial interface card (same thing windows calls it until you give it
> drivers) but can't figure out the maker of the device.  It's a Rockwell
> modem and really gerneric so I don't find that too surprising.  My BIOS
> sees the modem and says that the modem is on IRQ 9, which unfortunately is
> also where my sound card is.  Can anyone help me out in getting this modem
> working in Linux?  I had an isa pnp modem before that I got to work, but I
> don't know how to get a pci modem to work.  Can anyone help me out?
> Thanks.
> 
> 								Rob
> 
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> 
Rob,

As far as the interrupt is concerned, it's usually assigned by bios at
startup for PCI devices.  Check your BIOS setup and see if it allows you
to select which IRQ's are available for PCI devices, and which ones are
used by ISA devices.  I haven't done this for modems, but I had to do
it for my PCI network card.

HTH,
Mike

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