Where do I begin? Basic Linux

[Ben Pfaff]

"Keyes, Randall" <randall.keyes@jnli.com> writes:

> It's an "old" Diamond ISA 56k internal---sportster 56si with 2Mb RAM on the
> card, I believe.  Not a winmodem.

Is it PnP?  If so you either need to tell your BIOS to set it up
(by setting anything labeled "PnP aware OS" or similar to "no")
or set up isapnptools (or use kernel 2.4).

BTW why would a modem have 2 MB of RAM, or even 2 Mb?
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