On Saturday 01 February 2003 05:33 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 31 Jan 2003 at 9:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I just got a different laptop IBM thinkpad 770E 266 > mhz 64 mb ram. Yeah I know it could use > some more ram and I will probably order some latter > today. I installed dual boot Win 98 SE and ML 9.0 and > installed a external modem US Robotics Sportster > hooked > to the serial port. > the modem works fine with Winblows but KPPP cant > seem to do a thing with it in ML 9.0 In KPPP setup > device I first tried Dev tty S0 and got a message > saying KPPP can not find > /dev /tty/ S0 This came as kind of a shock, I never > had > one of these USR sportster modems fail me yet. Just > for > grins I tried all the other settings In KPPP , DEV / > Modem, Dev TTY S0 through S3 and S 10 through S13 and > still no luck. Tried to querry modem , No Luck, tried > a > different Modem and still no luck. I then went back to > Winblows and the modem still works fine. > I kind of suspect that ML can not see the serial > port but I don't have a clue as to how to > check that, no other serial devices around the house > to > plug in the serial port. > > Any body got any Ideas about what is wrong here. > Maybe the seat to keyboard interface? > > Thanks > Marc It says ion the 9.0 errata to go to /etc/sysconfig network and delete the line that says GATEWAY=(some ip address) That is what blocks the modem from working, actually the ppp interface protocol
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