Re: There's GOTTA Be A Way...

[Michael Scottaline]

On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 15:56:57 EDT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted:

I just installed a Hayes compatible (external/serial) modem on my Red Hat 
Linux 8.0 box and for the life of me, I can't figure out how to make the
^%$#@ thing work!

How are your tying to make it work??  What are you using to try to connect? 
KPPP??  wvdial  If KPPP you just need to go to set up and it should be
quite easy from there.  Under device, you can try /dev/modem, or more likely
/dev/ttyS1.  then just fill in the required info for your ISP, phone #, login,
password.  Click connect and see what happens.
==

I tried putting the Mac CD that came with the device in the drive, but the 
system doesn't recognize the CD (however when I put the Windows version of
the disk in the drive it DOES see that one! And yes, I tried running the 
installation software, for that disk, using ./ and all the possible
executables that were available).

I've tried running the Intenet Connection Wizard, but when I get to the 
dialog that asks for the ISP, there's no option for the USA. 
==
Vey unlikely you'll get to connect to AOL though.  You'll need a REAL ISP.


I've tried scouring the documentation both for Red Hat AND the modem and 
there's NOTHING (useful) about how do set up this modem. 

I'vre tried www.modems.com, AT commands, www.redhat.com/support, I even tried

CALLING RedHat, but all to no avail. 

Can someone PLEASE in PLAIN ENGLISH tell me how I'm supposed to get a modem 
to work on my RedHat 8.0 Linux computer? And PLEASE don't send me to any more
=
You might have to play with permissions a bit to get KPPP to work as a mortal
user.  It defaults to root ownership.
==
Mike

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Re: There's GOTTA Be A Way...

[fred smith]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 03:56:57PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I just installed a Hayes compatible (external/serial) modem on my Red Hat 
 Linux 8.0 box and for the life of me, I can't figure out how to make the ^%$#@ 
 thing work!
 
 I tried putting the Mac CD that came with the device in the drive, but the 
 system doesn't recognize the CD (however when I put the Windows version of the 
 disk in the drive it DOES see that one! And yes, I tried running the 
 installation software, for that disk, using ./ and all the possible executables 
 that 
 were available).
Well, those are Windoze files, anyway, so how would they do you any
good for Linux?

 I've tried running the Intenet Connection Wizard, but when I get to the 
 dialog that asks for the ISP, there's no option for the USA. 

I have a RH8 box here, but it doesn't have a modem in it. However,
the internet setup wizard doesn't REQUIRE you to choose a country.
You should just ignore the country list and enter the appropriate
ISP settings.

 I've tried scouring the documentation both for Red Hat AND the modem and 
 there's NOTHING (useful) about how do set up this modem. 

Sounds like a plain generic external serial modem, so they're pretty
much all the same.

 I'vre tried www.modems.com, AT commands, www.redhat.com/support, I even tried 
 CALLING RedHat, but all to no avail. 
 
 Can someone PLEASE in PLAIN ENGLISH tell me how I'm supposed to get a modem 
 to work on my RedHat 8.0 Linux computer? And PLEASE don't send me to any more 
 information (or LACK of information) sites. I need someone to tell me 
 STEP-BY-STEP how to do this. Thank you!

Well, first thing is figure out which serial port it's connected to.
if it's on (what windoze calls) COM1, that's /dev/ttyS0 for Linux. Knowing
that, do this:

ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/modem

and of course if it's COM2, do this instead:

ln -s /dev/ttyS1 /dev/modem

having done that, you should be able to go click on the internet
setup button and follow the directions, using /dev/modem as the 
serial port.  
 
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