highly seasoned greets
well never using kde/gnome if i can help it (ie need to drug me even more senseless
than usual and *then* trick me) i can't help you in that way.
but. i can suggest that you get rid of kppp and use wvdial instead.
it works.
is simple to use, and is as easy as to set up.
i've been using it since worldvisions.ca first made it available, and
<flamable_material> reckon it's a classic example of someone making a small useful
tool which fills a gap that near everybody was aware of and yet had done naught about
- excepting, of course, several dozen folk who had written docs explaining how they
had worked around the problem.</flamable_material>
re the detection problems:
"With an internal modem, use HardDrake to check if the system sees the modem.
Or use this command to query the PCI list directly: cat /proc/pci.
If it's an ISA bus modem, check '/etc/isapnp.conf' if it is listed there.
If you don't have that file, you'll have to generate it. Read isapnpfaq.txt
in the isapnptools doc directory or man isapnp or man isapnp.conf."
From: MUO http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/cppp.html
hth
pre
ps: it almost sounds like you were expecting mdk to fail - so why bother - at least,
if this was the case, you haven't been disappointed in your expectations.
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On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 17:43:59 +1300
Trev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Merry Xmas
>
> I have finally installed Mandrake 8.0 PowerPack.
> SuSE finds my Genius GM56flex-V Rockwell modem no prob, Mandrake (as
> usual) 8.0 nogo. I set it up when i installed MDK, it said ok, when i
> tried dialing with kppp i was pleasantly surprised when it started
> up, i stoped it before it connected. But i found when i later tried
> to connect it would only start to connect then stop and start again
> over and over.
>
> The modem is a isa pnp with dip s/w.
> I can't access the modem as root.
>
> I have a PS/2 Mouse.
>
> I have a isapnp sound card that works ok.
>
> I looked thro all the info i have (a lot) but nothing, i changed some
> settings in kppp, made no diff. I tried Control centre wizard and lost
> all access to the modem, kppp now tells me the modem is busy.
>
> I changed a few files - /etc/ppp/options - resolv.conf, made no diff.
>
> mandrake
> setserial /dev/modem UART:, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 4
>
> ls -al /dev/modem ---> /dev/ttyS2
>
> I changed it to
> setserial /dev/modem UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 4
> made no diff.
>
> suse
> /dev/ttyS2, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 4
>
> win
> com 03 03e8 irq 4
>
> Is there no minicom in MDK 8?.
>
> Also is there no pico in MDK 8? (my favourite editor).
>
>
> Have a good Xmas everbody.
>
> Cheers
> Trevor
>
