Subject: Re: PPP Connection
From: Andy Hocker (hocker@fnal.gov)
Date: Wed Jan 02 2002 - 14:37:17 MST
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Dylan Ward wrote:
> You answered my question the other day (29/12/01: "Re: Modem trouble")
> about getting a PowerBook to dial out to my ISP. I followed your advice
> and I am still getting the error message "Sorry, can't open modem". I
> am using kppp as well, but it just does not want to see the modem. I am
> still fairly new to Linux, so I keep thinking maybe I have missed
> something. Can you help me with anything? All help is greatly
> appreciated.
>
The only other thing I can think of is that maybe you've
specified the wrong modem device? On my iBook the modem is
at /dev/ttyS0 -- it's probably the same for a PowerBook (but
I think you can check by looking at the output of 'dmesg').
Good luck,
Andy
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