Re: Modem problems [was[newbie] PPP, sound, CD drive, and modem]

1999-01-04 Thread Idris S Hamid
Success!! Fabio Coatti wrote: > On Sun, Jan 03, 1999 at 06:41:09PM -0500, Idris S Hamid wrote: > > > Any thoughts on KDE locking my CD player? Again, it works fine upon logout. > > > > Have you started kscd? maybe the cdplayer locks the cd drive. Be aware > that kscd remains active also

Re: Modem problems [was[newbie] PPP, sound, CD drive, and modem]

1999-01-04 Thread Fabio Coatti
Warning Could not process message with given Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6; micalg=pgp-sha1;protocol="application/pgp-signature"

Re: Modem problems [was[newbie] PPP, sound, CD drive, and modem]

1999-01-03 Thread Idris S Hamid
> Maybe the second serial port of your M/B is disabled to avoid > conflicts with the internal port of modem card, but this one should be > seen at boot time. You are right: I spoke to the people who put my computer together and they told me that the on-board serial port was disabled. The mode

Re: Modem problems [was[newbie] PPP, sound, CD drive, and modem]

1999-01-03 Thread Fabio Coatti
Warning Could not process message with given Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=LyciRD1jyfeSSjG0; micalg=pgp-sha1;protocol="application/pgp-signature"

Re: Modem problems [was[newbie] PPP, sound, CD drive, and modem]

1999-01-02 Thread Idris S Hamid
No flames, please: I spoke to the people who built my computer and they told me that the problem is not recognizing the serial port COM2 (it is purposely disabled in the BIOS) but that ``RedHat does not like the modem''. So I will try upgrading the modem and see what happens. Anyway, I have lea

Re: Modem problems [was[newbie] PPP, sound, CD drive, and modem]

1999-01-02 Thread me
Sounds like it's a WinModem to me. On Sat, 02 Jan 1999 11:39:05 -0500, Idris S Hamid wrote: >Happy New Year, everyone. > >Fabio Coatti wrote: > >> >> > > You should see 2 serial ports... >> > >> > Well, I only have one serial port being recognized during bootup: >> > tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is

Re: Modem problems [was[newbie] PPP, sound, CD drive, and modem]

1999-01-02 Thread Idris S Hamid
Happy New Year, everyone. Fabio Coatti wrote: > > > > You should see 2 serial ports... > > > > Well, I only have one serial port being recognized during bootup: > > tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A . > > > > I believe that this corresponds to COM1. Could this be the source of my > > problem

Re: Modem problems [was[newbie] PPP, sound, CD drive, and modem]

1999-01-02 Thread Fabio Coatti
On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 01:51:44PM -0500, Idris S Hamid wrote: > Well, the modem was unlocked when I rebooted into Linux, but still ``busy'' when >queried. Note, however, that I ran ps ax after > running pppd and ps ax did not list ppp, slhc, or nls_cp437. > ppp, slhc and nls are modules, not

Re: Modem problems [was[newbie] PPP, sound, CD drive, and modem]

1998-12-30 Thread Idris S Hamid
Fabio Coatti wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 07:35:19PM -0500, Idris S Hamid wrote: > > > DOS). From KPPP I did ``Query Modem''. > > In response I got the following message: ``Sorry, the modem is > > busy''. However, the modem was NOT busy at all (I could still use my > > phone). > > This is r