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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Samual Acorn wrote:

> is the modem internal? if so is it PCI? (if PCI thats your problem) if
> its ISA then disable onboard COM2 (ttyS1) and set the internal as com2
> (ttyS1)... if the modem is external and works fine with other systems
> check that the serial port is good in the computer....

External, on Com2.
I have no free slots after replacing onboard USB and sound.

Is there a way to check the serial port in linux?  It works, just not very 
consistently or fast.

> disabling onboard sound in the BIOS -will- disable it... (a way to
> truely verify if its disabled is to boot/install windows and use
> windows 'new hardware' probe.... if it doenst find the onboard sound
> chip then its safe to say its disabled... if it finds it but has the
> little yellow exclimation point over it saying the device has a
> problem then its not completely disabled)

I don't want to put Windows on this computer.  I thought I read that BL 
ignores BIOS settings.  I will attempt to identify onboard sound and get 
it working so as to free up a PCI slot for PCI modem.

See 'previous in thread' for the problem - slow connection which also 
freezes up.

Sindi