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The first place you should look would be /proc/interrupts and
/proc/ioports.  These are text files so either use a text editor or the
cat command.  They will tell you what ports and IRQs are actually in
use.  The modem IRQ will not be in use until you use the modem.  It is
kind of odd that a Zip drive is causing a conflict with the modem, since
a zip should be an IDE device unless it is running from the parallel
port in which case it should use IRQ 7.  I am not sure if running a zip
from the parallel port even works in linux.  You might also want to set
the modem to be ttyS1, if you change your hardware to use IRQ 3 and
ioport 2F8 linux should be able to talk to it correctly.  You can verify
what IRQ and io address each ttyS* is using the setserial command.

setserial /dev/ttyS*

If none of that helps you might be able to find a how-to at
http://www.linux-howto.com

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