[techtalk] For the not so techie Linux users

[Norma Armstrong]

You're welcome. I hope this works out for you. My next thing is to get
decent Internet access again so I can once again use Linux for all my
Internet needs. I'm getting tired of the constant crashes under Windows. So
I hear you on the wanting to get away from Microsoft products :)

                  Norma

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-techtalk at linuxchix.org
> [mailto:owner-techtalk at linuxchix.org]On Behalf Of kev
> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 3:49 AM
> To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
> Subject: Re: [techtalk] For the not so techie Linux users
>
>
> Thanks Norma,
> I've had Red Hat 6 on my machine at home for a few months, and
> still haven't
> got my modem working :-(
> My investigations, which have been conducted at a less than leisurely rate
> because I have so many other things to sort out, have led me to
> believe that my
> IRQ level may be wrong. The modem dials the ISP ok (but things
> move very very
> slowly), has a little chat then the ISP hangs up and errors appear in
> /var/log/messages. The next step of my investigation was to find
> out how to
> change the IRQ levels, so hopefully you've just solved one of my
> biggest Linux
> problems for me :-)
> I'll try this tonight when I get home. I do some work at home,
> and I've been
> getting by by connecting to my work machine with an ssh client on
> Windows, but
> if this works then I should really have no more reason to use any
> Microsloth
> products any more :o)
>
> Many thanks,
>
> - Kev
>
> Norma Armstrong wrote:
>
> > I thought I'd share this command. It helps those especially if
> you can't get
> > your modem to work under linux (assuming you don't have a winmodem). I
> > assume you have already used the RedHat Control Panel to assign
> the correct
> > com port to /dev/modem - for example mine is on Com 3. Okay to check out
> > what IRQ Linux assigns to Com 3 in this example you should type at the
> > command prompt "setserial -g /dev/modem". This will give you
> info about your
> > modem like the IRQ Linux assigns to it. In my case the default
> is "IRQ 4".
> > That is the default IRQ assigned to Com port 3 is 4. Well this can cause
> > problems if your modem is not on IRQ 4 (mine is at IRQ 5). Like
> for example
> > you take forever to connect or when you connect everything runs
> real slow,
> > etc. Well it is an easy problem to fix. Type again at the command prompt
> > "setserial /dev/modem IRQ 5". Your problem is now fixed. Oh by
> the way this
> > is one problem that wasn't completely explained to me. I had to find the
> > answer in a newsgroups. Maybe by now the HOW-TOs have this info
> but stuff
> > like this can be explained better to the newbie. I hope this has helped
> > somebody. If it's too confusing I'm sorry. I'm still an
> Intermediate Linux
> > user and still have alot to learn.
> >
> >                        Regards,
> >                               Norma
> >
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