On Sunday 02 February 2003 09:05 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 1 Feb 2003 at 22:19, civileme wrote: > > 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 > > > > Civileme > > I loged in as root and went to usr/local/ect and > ect is empty. I did have show hidden files checked. I > read the errata and I doubt it applies in this case > because I don't have a ethernet card. > And it gets stranger yet last night I messed with > it a while trying to get the modem working. > I looked again at any and all modem settings and > could not find a thing that looked like it might help. > In desperation I changed from /dev/tty/S0 to other > settings several times and finally set it back to what > seemed to make sense /dev/tty/S0 and the modem came to > life, well kind of, well almost . when trying to dial > up the modem is found but it gets to initalizing modem > and just stops I can now querry the modem but all the > results come back blank. I don't have a manual on this > old modem but I checked all the dip switches to make > shure that they were set the same as on my other > machine with the same type modem on /dev/tty/S0. > I am still stumped but I guess this does look kind > of like progress. > Marc
on _my USR external, I have to add the extra string of ATs32=66, allowing it to complete the connection,,, what model of modem do you use?
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