setting up a modem

[Alex Snow]

I'll have to pull the card out and find what modem type it is.

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On Sun, 25 May 2003, Adam Myrow wrote:

> I prefer ISAPNP in the kernel myself.  It works IMHO much better than the
> old ISAPNP utilities.  You can look in /proc/isapnp for its output, and it
> handles things fairly nicely.  Some modems will automatically get set up
> if they are on a standard IRQ.  On the other hand, I remember something
> about Rockwell modems not being fully functional in Linux.  Here is what
> the Modem-Howto says on the subject.  Is your modem perhaps one of these
> older Rockwell modems that it is talking about?
>
> 2.9.2.  Rockwell (RPI) Drivers
>
>   Some older Rockwell chips need Rockwell RPI (Rockwell Protocol
>   Interface) drivers for compression and error correction.  They can
>   still be used with Linux even though the driver software works only
>   under MS Windows.  This is because the MS Windows software (which you
>   don't have) does only compression and error correction.  If you are
>   willing to operate the modem without compression and error correction
>   then it's feasible to use it with Linux.  To do this you will need to
>   disable RPI by sending the modem (via the initialization string) a
>   "RPI disable" command each time you power on your modem.  On my old
>   modem this command was +H0.  Not having data compression available
>   makes it slower to get webpages but is just as fast when downloading
>   files that are already compressed.
>
>
>
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