On 16-Apr-99 Small, Bradley wrote: > > Problem #1, I have a modem on Com1. I know I do because Bill Gates > tells me I do when I run His OS. Try as I might I can't seem to > convince Linux that it is there. I assume that I should be using > wvdial and when it ran the configuration utility it said that it > didn't detect any modem. So I read the man page and setup the > wvdial.conf file. I pointed it to each /dev/ttySn > 0,1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 with no real difference except that 0 threw > a different kind of error.
You may well have the modem on /dev/ttyS0 = COM1, but you probably also have your mouse there as well. In that case you are likely to hit interrupt conflicts, and Linux will only see one of the devices. Suggestion: either move your mouse to /dev/ttyS1 -- plug into the COM2 port, then rm /dev/mouse ln -s /dev/ttyS1 /dev/mouse or move your modem to COM2 (may involve changing jumper settings; I don't know what to do if the modem is PnP), then rm /dev/modem ln -s /dev/ttyS1 /dev/modem or (perhaps better -- comments from others advisable here): ln -s /dev/cua1 /dev/modem (the ttyS* and cua* devices are hardware-equivalent, but if I'm not mistaken using the /dev/cua* device is better for dialin, which you might want for a modem). Hope this helps, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 16-Apr-99 Time: 14:55:31 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------