Re: [newbie] PCI Modem for Joe and Sfactor
The file that you want to edit is the rc.local file In 7.1 it looks like a mini TV. Right click on it and choose edit then add the 2 setserial lines to the bottom. By doing this the 2 lines are used each time you boot otherwise you would have to manually enter them each time which would be a drag. You cannot connect to the internet using Netscape or any other program. You have to connect to the internet first and then launch Netscape You should also verify in Kppp that you correctly entered the IP addresses for your ISP. As for disabling "logging on to network" I am not sure what you mean by disabling. If you do not want to see it after you click connect, click hide and the box will disapear. The Network that it is refering to is your ISP. Charles - Original Message - From: "Sfactor (SJ)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000 4:44 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] PCI Modem for Joe and Sfactor I was the one asking about the modem on Com5. Well, it worked! Thank you so much. I got it to connect fine. I have a few questions, now that I've found someone that knows what he's doing. When I connect, it said "logging on to network", I remember this from windows, where there is a way to disable it. Is there a way to disable it in kppp? When I ran Netscape, it could not open any page on the web. It gave me an error the first time relating to SOCK or SOCKET or something like that, why is this happening? You mentioned that to make the changes, I would have to add those two lines to the end of /etc/rc.d. That is a directory with several files and folders, what specific file that I should put it in? Again, thank you very very much, your help is much appreciated. - Original Message - From: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 8:38 AM Subject: [newbie] PCI Modem for Joe and Sfactor Joe and Sfactor You both had questions regarding setting up your PCI modem. The procedures you need to follow are the same for all PCI modems. Sfactor the only setting in the BIOS that you need to check is Plug and Play Setup. The first listing should read something like PnP OS. This should be set to No or Disabled. . Log in as root and from terminal enter the following command # cat /proc/pci This will list all your PCI devices. On this list you should see either Communication controller or Communication device, that listing is your modem. If it shows as Comm. device you have a winmodem and it won't work in Linux. If it shows as Comm. controller proceed as follows: Write down the first I/O range. In the example I am using 0xd800 replace that with yours. Enter the following # setserial /dev/ttyS3 port 0xd800 spd_vhi skip_test auto_irq autoconfig If there are no errors, then enter # setserial /dev/ttyS3 uart 16550A Select /dev/ttyS3 as the device in kppp and your modem should now initalize and operate. To make this perm. you will need to edit your rc.local file which is located in the /etc/rc.d directory. Add the 2 setserial lines to the end of this file Save the changes and reboot your system. Should you have any problems let me know and I will try to help. Charles
RE: [newbie] PCI Modem for Joe and Sfactor
Charles, I'm the other guy who was asking about getting a PCI modem to be unbusy. I'm only writing here because another guy said he still gets the busy signal even after doing what you suggested (sure do appreciate you turning me onto "setserial"). I think my problem, and possible that of the other guy, is that the modem and sound system are sharing the same interrupt. This makes no sense at all to me as both work fine under Windows. In spite of this, when I query the devices in Windows I'm told that my modem isn't using an IRQ at all but that the sound card is on IRQ9. Within Linux it tells me that both are using IRQ9. There is something basic about PCI setups that I don't understand I guess so I'm scratching my head, saying "Hm..." a lot and largely getting nowhere. To make matters worse, Windows just decided to scramble my FAT table so I'm struggling with it. I guess that was just a reminder why I want to move to Linux (grin). Thanks for your responses. Cheers --- Larry
[newbie] PCI Modem for Joe and Sfactor
Joe and Sfactor You both had questions regarding setting up your PCI modem. The procedures you need to follow are the same for all PCI modems. Sfactor the only setting in the BIOS that you need to check is Plug and Play Setup. The first listing should read something like PnP OS. This should be set to No or Disabled. . Log in as root and from terminal enter the following command # cat /proc/pci This will list all your PCI devices. On this list you should see either Communication controller or Communication device, that listing is your modem. If it shows as Comm. device you have a winmodem and it won't work in Linux. If it shows as Comm. controller proceed as follows: Write down the first I/O range. In the example I am using 0xd800 replace that with yours. Enter the following # setserial /dev/ttyS3 port 0xd800 spd_vhi skip_test auto_irq autoconfig If there are no errors, then enter # setserial /dev/ttyS3 uart 16550A Select /dev/ttyS3 as the device in kppp and your modem should now initalize and operate. To make this perm. you will need to edit your rc.local file which is located in the /etc/rc.d directory. Add the 2 setserial lines to the end of this file Save the changes and reboot your system. Should you have any problems let me know and I will try to help. Charles
Re: [newbie] PCI Modem for Joe and Sfactor
Ok. I tried this and I don't have a winmode. My modem is listed as a Communications Controller. I followed your instructions and recieved no errors. But when I try to query the modem KPPP says "Sorry the modem is busy!". any suggestions? Sfactor (SJ)" wrote: I was the one asking about the modem on Com5. Well, it worked! Thank you so much. I got it to connect fine. I have a few questions, now that I've found someone that knows what he's doing. When I connect, it said "logging on to network", I remember this from windows, where there is a way to disable it. Is there a way to disable it in kppp? When I ran Netscape, it could not open any page on the web. It gave me an error the first time relating to SOCK or SOCKET or something like that, why is this happening? You mentioned that to make the changes, I would have to add those two lines to the end of /etc/rc.d. That is a directory with several files and folders, what specific file that I should put it in? Again, thank you very very much, your help is much appreciated. - Original Message - From: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 8:38 AM Subject: [newbie] PCI Modem for Joe and Sfactor Joe and Sfactor You both had questions regarding setting up your PCI modem. The procedures you need to follow are the same for all PCI modems. Sfactor the only setting in the BIOS that you need to check is Plug and Play Setup. The first listing should read something like PnP OS. This should be set to No or Disabled. . Log in as root and from terminal enter the following command # cat /proc/pci This will list all your PCI devices. On this list you should see either Communication controller or Communication device, that listing is your modem. If it shows as Comm. device you have a winmodem and it won't work in Linux. If it shows as Comm. controller proceed as follows: Write down the first I/O range. In the example I am using 0xd800 replace that with yours. Enter the following # setserial /dev/ttyS3 port 0xd800 spd_vhi skip_test auto_irq autoconfig If there are no errors, then enter # setserial /dev/ttyS3 uart 16550A Select /dev/ttyS3 as the device in kppp and your modem should now initalize and operate. To make this perm. you will need to edit your rc.local file which is located in the /etc/rc.d directory. Add the 2 setserial lines to the end of this file Save the changes and reboot your system. Should you have any problems let me know and I will try to help. Charles
Re: [Re: [newbie] PCI Modem for Joe and Sfactor]
"Sfactor (SJ)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was the one asking about the modem on Com5. Well, it worked! Thank you so much. I got it to connect fine. I have a few questions, now that I've found someone that knows what he's doing. When I connect, it said "logging on to network", I remember this from windows, where there is a way to disable it. Is there a way to disable it in kppp? When I ran Netscape, it could not open any page on the web. It gave me an error the first time relating to SOCK or SOCKET or something like that, why is this happening? You mentioned that to make the changes, I would have to add those two lines to the end of /etc/rc.d. That is a directory with several files and folders, what specific file that I should put it in? Again, thank you very very much, your help is much appreciated. If you are in fact connecting to your isp, and Netscape is failing to connect to specific websires, try editing your /etc/resolv.conf add the lines: search your isp nameserver dns# nameserver dns# Your isp should provide you with two dns#'s. HTH, Mike "Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." --Winston Churchill Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] PCI Modem for Joe and Sfactor
Even though I am also a newbie, I can try helping you. What modem do you have? there is a page, mirrored by many, that has a huge listing of modems ( can not think of it offhand, do a google search for linux compatible modems or somethign ) and their compatibility with linux. If it really isn't a winmodem, then try going to the kppp tutorial on mandrake's website. They have a step by step process of setting up your isp account and modem. If you can't remember what it said when you switch back to linux, save each page of the tutorial to your c drive ( as a .htm file ). its a little annoying, but there should be an icon on linux desktop saying dos hd*, where star represents the number of your c drive, you can load the tutorial pages you saved from there. If you don't feel like saving / remembering the tutorial, you just fiddle with the options, you can eventually figure it out. make sure you followed charles' advise exactly. If you STILL can't figure it out, wait for a response from someone on this list, and if you still want an answer, post on linux usenet. hope i helped - Original Message - From: Chris Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 2:52 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] PCI Modem for Joe and Sfactor Ok. I tried this and I don't have a winmode. My modem is listed as a Communications Controller. I followed your instructions and recieved no errors. But when I try to query the modem KPPP says "Sorry the modem is busy!". any suggestions? Sfactor (SJ)" wrote: I was the one asking about the modem on Com5. Well, it worked! Thank you so much. I got it to connect fine. I have a few questions, now that I've found someone that knows what he's doing. When I connect, it said "logging on to network", I remember this from windows, where there is a way to disable it. Is there a way to disable it in kppp? When I ran Netscape, it could not open any page on the web. It gave me an error the first time relating to SOCK or SOCKET or something like that, why is this happening? You mentioned that to make the changes, I would have to add those two lines to the end of /etc/rc.d. That is a directory with several files and folders, what specific file that I should put it in? Again, thank you very very much, your help is much appreciated. - Original Message - From: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 8:38 AM Subject: [newbie] PCI Modem for Joe and Sfactor Joe and Sfactor You both had questions regarding setting up your PCI modem. The procedures you need to follow are the same for all PCI modems. Sfactor the only setting in the BIOS that you need to check is Plug and Play Setup. The first listing should read something like PnP OS. This should be set to No or Disabled. . Log in as root and from terminal enter the following command # cat /proc/pci This will list all your PCI devices. On this list you should see either Communication controller or Communication device, that listing is your modem. If it shows as Comm. device you have a winmodem and it won't work in Linux. If it shows as Comm. controller proceed as follows: Write down the first I/O range. In the example I am using 0xd800 replace that with yours. Enter the following # setserial /dev/ttyS3 port 0xd800 spd_vhi skip_test auto_irq autoconfig If there are no errors, then enter # setserial /dev/ttyS3 uart 16550A Select /dev/ttyS3 as the device in kppp and your modem should now initalize and operate. To make this perm. you will need to edit your rc.local file which is located in the /etc/rc.d directory. Add the 2 setserial lines to the end of this file Save the changes and reboot your system. Should you have any problems let me know and I will try to help. Charles
RE: [newbie] PCI Modem for Joe and Sfactor
You mentioned that to make the changes, I would have to add those two lines to the end of /etc/rc.d. That is a directory with several files and folders, They have to be added to your rc.local file which is in that directory. Glad you got yours running. I have to say that I tried the same thing and while it ran without error, my SupraModem is still "busy" when it's queried. Still scratching my head on this one. Cheers --- Larry
