Subject: Re: PPP Connection
From: Dylan Ward (dylan.@esatclear.ie)
Date: Wed Jan 09 2002 - 13:48:42 MST
I tried minicom as well, but it doesn't even find the modem. I checked
dmesg and there is nothing to do with the modem (unless I overlooked
it...). Thank you for the advice though.
Dylan
On Wednesday, January 2, 2002, at 10:48 , Tom Astle wrote:
> I have had the same problem, the modem device is identified in dmesg,
> but it will not open the /dev in kppp wvdial or whatever.
>
> Strangely enough, though, minicom will open the device and dial out.
>
>
> On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 16:37, Andy Hocker wrote:
>> 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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