Hi, I have not had any luck getting on the internet in linux. I used to have a zoom winmodem that didn't work, a usr 28.8 external that would not work, but I am fixing on buying a internal ISA usr 56k hardware modem. Will the ISA 56k USR hardware modem work or will that get stuck initilizing also??? Please help I need the internet for school to take online classes.

I would have thought that the external one would have worked, what errors were you receiving? The ISA one should be fine too, especially if it is one with jumpers on that you can select the com port, irq etc. If you know the model numbers, check on www.linmodems.org and www.linmodems.com

Thanks for your quick reply. The external modem was blown out so I just bought the USR 56k ISA modem. It is a full hardware modem with the jumpers. I just have to put in it later today. What port and IRQ should I set it at when I install it? Thanks

You probably have two com ports on your PC set as 1 and 2. So as not to conflict, you should set it as either com 3 or 4. Com ports 1 and 3 use IRQ 4 by default, com ports 2 and 4 use IRQ 3. As they share IRQ numbers, if for example you have a mouse pluged into your com 1, com 3 will be unavailable. If you use ps2/usb for your mouse and have no external serial devices it shouldn't matter. com1 == /dev/ttyS0 - IRQ4 com2 == /dev/ttyS1 - IRQ3 com3 == /dev/ttyS2 - IRQ4 com4 == /dev/ttyS3 - IRQ3