----- Original Message ----- From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Then I'd try minicom and play with the COM port settings; after each
"minicom" dosent exist on my system. 'minicom' command results in file not found message and man minicom results are simular. Also there is no entry in info for minicom. The entry in dmesg for ttyS3 is different from ttyS0 & ttyS1 it may be helpful. There was somthing strange happened. I booted normally and at the GUI login cntl-alt-F1 to get back to command line. When finished I attempted to transfer /var/log/demsg to floppy and received the file does not exit message. Knowing it had to be there I issued 'startx' and received the X is running message. So I did a 'killx' and another 'startx' which booted directly into KDE bypassing GUI login Then I went to console and reissued the command to transfer /var/log/demsg to floppy and file not found message appeared. Called Konk(sp) and moved to /var/log and demsg was present ckicked on same and transfered it to floppy. That is the long way around. When I clicked on the logout symbol I returned to command line. Regards; Hoyt
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crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 64 Oct 16 09:25 /dev/ttyS0 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 65 Oct 16 09:28 /dev/ttyS1 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 66 Mar 14 2002 /dev/ttyS2 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 67 Mar 14 2002 /dev/ttyS3
Oo-kay-y, but how does this info about dmesg existing in X but not in console and copying said file to floppy relate to your modem issues?
Not finding any info on minicom just means that it's not installed. In that case, I'd probably just work with pppconfig until I got frustrated enough to bother with getting minicom installed for an additional testing tool.
You say "ttyS3 is different from ttyS0 & ttyS1"; um, yes. They're different files. Maybe you mean something else when you say they're "different"?
Why are you trying to transfer dmesg to floppy? Without knowing the exact command you used, as whom, in what directory, it's hard to say what might have gone wrong with your copy attempt.
What happens with the command: echo "ATDT555-1234" > /dev/ttyS3
This should cause the modem (assuming it's on COM4 in Windows-speak) to dial the phone number 555-1234).
-- Kent
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