Re: [PLUG] RedHat Linux 6.1 ISP connection

[Greg Lopp <lopp@earthlink.net>]

Sijian Zhou wrote:

> I got 'Sorry, the modem doesn't respond' message from
> KDE. Manual, GNOME just say 'connection fail'. I don't
> see how to minicom point to specific port.
>

Should be under serial port setup(*A) in minicom.  You don't alreay have
a minicom configuration file (.minirc), minicom should use /dev/modem by
default......That file is not created by RedHat out of the box.

Make sure that you have /dev/modem :
ls -l /dev/modem

You should see something like
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            5 Mar 14 05:52 /dev/modem ->
ttyS2

This would mean that all reads/writes to /dev/modem actually go to
/dev/ttyS2, aka COM3.  If you don't have a /dev/modem file, that could
explain all your problems.  If that's the case, as root, try the
following :
ln -s /dev/ttyS2 /dev/modem

You should also check the permissions on /dev/ttyS2 or ttyS3, which ever
you want to use.

>
> --- Bill Jonas <bj@netaxs.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Sijian Zhou wrote:
> >
> > >One another thing: if I set modem dip to COM3, KDE
> > has
> > >to set to ttyS3 to get 'busy' message. if I set
> > modem
> > >dip to COM4, KDE has to set to ttyS2 to get 'busy'
> > >message. Otherwise just got '...doesn't respond'
> > >message. I could not set dip to COM1 and COM2.
> > There
> > >is conflict.
> >
> > I'm sure you know this, but...
> >
> > COM4 corresponds to Linux's ttyS3
> > COM3 corresponds to ttyS2
> >
> > What do you get when you try it on these settings?
> >


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