Re: [PLUG] Modem Followup Question

[John Lavin <jlavin1@voicenet.com>]

Hugh and Bill,

Thanks for the follow ups - lots of stuff for me to try out.  I found
isapnp and I'm going to bite the bullet and try it.  (After all, I want
my PnP Soundcard too!)  I'll let everyone know how this saga turns out.

Just a couple of answers to your questions Hugh - Yes, when I said Com3,
I meant /dev/ttyS2.  Of course, when that didn't work, I linked to
ttyS0, ttyS1 and ttyS3 just to be through.  The K desktop makes it so
easy to continue to think in windoze terms....  And I know that
permisions was not an issue as I have been attempting to get my modem
working logged in as root.  I haven't been too concerned about the
security of that just yet - I want to get it to work first.

Thanks again,
-john
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John Lavin
jlavin1@voicenet.com

Hugh Brock wrote:
> 
> John Lavin writes:
> 
>  > I booted into Linux, changed /dev/modem to Com3 and tried KPPP.  No go.
>  > Got a "Not Responding" error from KPPP Query.
> 
> Hi John!
> 
> When you say "COM3" I assume you mean /dev/ttyS3? (Note the capital
> "S"...)
> 
> Really the next thing to do is get a very strong cup of coffee and sit
> down for a morning with the Serial How-To. It's a little thick, but
> it's the only good way to really understand what's going on with Linux
> and serial ports.
> 
> You'll see when you read it that any number of things could be
> happening: The modem could be not set at all under Linux, it could be
> set but Linux's serial autoconfig might not be finding it, you could
> just be grabbing the wrong port, you could be accessing the port as a
> regular user rather than root (or you could have neglected to chmod
> 666 the port so that you can access it as a regular user)... the list
> goes on and on.
> 
> While you're reading how-tos, take a look at the PnP how-to. It might
> be necessary. Hopefully not <g>.
> 
> Good luck,
> --Hugh
> 
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