[ale] Need Advise

[spanfax at charter.net (Enrique Nieves)]

Hi everyone, I'm new to the list, so forgive me if 
this is not the correct forum for my question.?? I'm a newbie to Linux, 
and??enjoying the freedom from Microsoft.
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I just installed Mandrake 8.1 in??my old PC 
(Acer Aspire) AMD K6, 233 Mhz, 128 RAM, 6 gig hard drive.?? Everything is 
working great, except for the modem (. . . it's not a Winmodem).?? The 
entire machine is running on Linux (Mandrake 8.1).?? I 
took??out??entirely the previous OS, Windows 98.??
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I'm getting a "modem is busy" 
signal, every time.?? 
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The phone line is working, and the modem is 
new.?? The modem is a U.S. Robotics 56K, PCI, 
V90/V92,??internal, model 5610B.?? It is advertised as Linux 
compatible.
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So far I've tried the following:
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1-checked the true address of the serial port by 
comparing what I see with the command lspci and setserial. Both addresses are 
the same.
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2-Checked the IRQ, and it's the correct 
one
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3-Checked BIOS and disabled 
plug-n-play.
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4-re-installed Mandrake
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5-moved the card to another PCI slot
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I'm running out of options, and would appreciate 
any advise.
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Thanks,
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EN