Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 17:51:28 +0200 (MES) From: Dirk Wilmer Subject: Medion 9783 Dear Ole Tange, today I found your pages on the Medion Notebook 9783 which I own myself. I am running SuSE Linux 8.1 on it, and it works quite good for me. I looked at your web page http://ole.tange.dk/linux/problemer/medion-9783/ and found that you have not managed to get the modem running. Since I have succeed in making it run, I thought I should let you know how. The modem is, indeed, a winmodem, manufactored by Creatix in Germany. The chipset, though, is by Intel, and Creatix, on their website www.creatix.de, have a link to the appropriate Intel drivers: http://developer.intel.com/design/modems/support/drivers_linux.htm I downloaded intel-v92ham.tgz, unpacked, compiled and installed the software. Then the hard part started: trying to use the modem, e.g., using minicom on device /dev/ham resulted in a complete freeze of the machine. It took me some time to find out what happened: in /var/log/messages, one could see that no interrupt could be attributed to the modem device. The solution is to add "pci=acpi" as a boot parameter, e.g., in /boot/grub/menu.lst. Having done this, the device will have interrupt 11, and it will work, too. Thanks for distributing your experiences with "our" notebook. Yours sincerely, Dirk Wilmer -- Dirk Wilmer Institut fuer Physikalische Chemie FAX: +49 251 839138 D-48149 Muenster, Germany phone: +49 251 833436