thinkpad again; ltmodem

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.  ttyS01 should be a second comm port your serial port should be
ttyS00.  That keeps the modem from conflicting with your built in serial
port.

          Kenny

On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 01:00:13PM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> Hi everybody!
> Just to update, my ethernet is up and working on the thinkpad; still need to get
> a switch or hub for the desktop though, because right now I have to unplug my
> cable modem from the desktop to connect the laptop, and sometimes I need them
> both connected.
> I have a lucent technologies modem which does work with the ltmodem drivers for
> linux, but I have a question or two and I think a couple of you may have dealt
> with this.
> First, even though I have only one serial port, when I compile the ltmodem
> package, it seems to think my mocem is on ttyS01. I'm assuming though that it
> actually has to come through the same serial port that I now use for the
> doubletalk and/or braillelite, and I don't think the driver actually loads
> unless i don't use the braillelite/doubletalk. Would I be correct in assuming
> this. the reason I think this is correct is that i can't find anything about the
> driver loading when I boot with my speech/braille technology, but when I boot
> without it and make a dmesg file and then reboot and read the file, the driver
> is loaded.
> Second, if I should want to use the modem sometimes, I imagine this means I have
> to put the bdoubletalk and/or braillelite on a pcmcia serial port. Has anybody
> done this and does it work ok? Is there any special setting up I have to do
> other than loading pcmcia drivers?
> I sure like my new toy--oops, I mean tool!!!
> thanks.
> 
> Cheryl
> 
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