Re: [hylafax-users] Trouble Setting up multiple modems on RedHat 7.0

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>]

On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 06:42:53PM -0500, Douglas Younger wrote:
>    I am trying to set up a fax server machine with four internal PCI 
> modems.

If you'll forgive me my opinionatedness, that's a bad idea.
Multi-modem fax servers, and especially business servers are usally
better off with external modems, cause you can reset them
individually, without bouncing the entire system.

That said...

>       I have USR/3Com 3CP5610A modems which are not winmodems. I tried at 
> first to just get one modem set up, and using the standard kernel supplied 
> with RH7.0 (2.2.16 & patches), I was having no luck at all. I also tried to
> compile 2.2.17 (which is a feat in and of itself with RedHat shipping a 
> beta gcc that won't compile kernels), and was still unable to access the 
> modem.  So, I got the 2.4.0-test12 which is the latest beta kernel (the 
> modem box says you need 2.3.x or better, which is funny, because 2.2.x is 
> the current "stable" revision). Anyway, I finally got a modem setup & 
> communicating with minicom. So, I put in the other 3 to see if I could 
> configure them. Well no luck. I seem to get a whole lot of resource 
> conflicts in the boot sequence. Looking at /proc/pci it only listed 2 of 
> the modems, And /etc/sysconfig/hwconf (from kudzu) lists 3 ?!? I tried 
> dropping to only 2 modems and I still get conflicts. With more than 1 
> modem, I can't access any of them.

*This* is the other reason I don't like interal modems.  :-)

Serial ports tend to be *much* easier to configure.

> I've searched RedHat's site with no luck. 3Com's site is absolutely 
> useless. I've found a few pages that pointed me in the right direction to 
> get one modem set up, but I cant find anything with info for setting up 
> more than one.
> 
> Any suggestions or references would be appreciated.

Well, you were following the proper protocol: get one working, then
move along.  If the box says that you need 2.3 or better, though, I'd
bet *cash* the modems *are* soft, and that's part of your problem. 

There's been a lot of work being done on soft modems -- though ghod
alone knows why -- and that sounds like it might be the problem.

Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth                                                jra@baylink.com
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