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Subject: Re: Newbie who is fed up with windows! [winmodem, dmesg]
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On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Charles Burns wrote: [snip]
> If the modem is, in fact, a WinModem (which, BTW, means that the modem
> functions-the modulation and demodulation-are done by your CPU instead of
> the modem itself) it may work in Linux. Linux may also be a better choice
> for a new Unix user, due to the fact that there are severl distributions of
> Linux that are more user friendly that will more smoothly ease you into the
> Unix way of doing things, which is almost always different.
> There are great instructions about this at www.linmodems.org [snip]

Please copy/paste the output of the command "dmesg -a > dmesg.out" as this file may log some sort of PnP recognition of the hardware, for all we know.

For example, here is my modem (which I have yet to use):
sio4: configured irq 11 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
sio4: <SupraExpress 56i Sp> at port 0x3e8-0x3ef irq 11 on isa0
sio4: type 16550A

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