Re: [leaf-user] PPP over serial please help

[Ray Olszewski]

Joey and Charles did a pretty comprehensive job of covering what you need to know at this point (including restating some of the stuff Charles and I previously suggested you try). Let me just add a couple of details:

1. You write:

In an attempt to make sure the serial port was
installed I found serial.o, copied it to the
/lib/modules directory, put it in a line in the
/etc/modules and rebooted.

This description of what you did is vague enough that it might conceal a problem. Use "lsmod" to verify that serial.o is installed after boot/init. If it is not, post a more detailed report of the steps you followed here, and we'll try to spot the problem.

2. You write:

One more note: I'm assuming I should be on com1
because this leaf only has one com port to begin with.
So it makes sense to assume it's ttyS0, right?

Well ... you know the old saying about "assume", right? In this context, it is not a good assumption; PCs with only one serial port may have it located at the irq/ioport usually associated with Windows' "COM2" port and have a modem (even a dreaded Winmodem) at the standard "COM1" settings. The only way to know where the serial port is located is to check ... in documentation for the PC, in the BIOS settings, or in the messages the kernel posts to the dmesg buffer. (That other ttyS* devices also fail suggests that if this is the problem, the serial port is located in a very non-standard place.)

As Charles wrote, until you find the serial port and get it associated with some ttyS* device, the rest of what you wrote is irrelevent. That's not to say that everything you wrote there is correct ... Charles pointed out that you should "delete" (me, I'd say comment it out, not deleted it) the T3: line in /etc/inittab, for example. Once you get the serial port itself working, we may need to help you identify other problems at this level ... but that is better done after you have the initial problem fixed.

Last thought: you haven't really told us anything about the hardware involved. Does this system even have a NIC in it yet? If so, what are its irq and ioport settings? (I'm trying to allow for the possibility that the serial port is ttyS1 and that you have an irq conflict on irq 3 ... very unlikely for pci-based NICs but commonplace with isa-based ones.) Is the com port enabled in the BIOS? If yes, with what IRQ and ioport values? In any case, a next followup, if these problems persist, should tell us whateve you can about the hardware.

At 11:06 PM 12/22/02 -0800, Kache wrote:
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