Re: Rev A iMac Configuration update
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 01:04:33PM +0100, Dave Turner wrote:
> 2) no modem
> what a pain!
> I did "modprobe macserial" which told me that the modem is on tty00.
> I installed minicom so I could confirm if the modem was being seen. It
> is.
> I tried setserail, pppconfig, pon.
> pon never worked, but after setting the modem to tty00 so minicom can
> see it pon now complains that it has an
> "unrecognized option '/dev/tty00'.
> Note that ttyS0 never worked - although it seems it should!
>
> Any ideas? I spent a full day doing battle with man pages and docs
> trying to get the modem to work.
The driver has always printed out names that don't match the real
device nodes in /dev. It prints out tty00, but that is really
/dev/ttyS0. Did you try ttyS0 after loading the macserial module?
Also, I'm pretty sure that setserial has never worked on Mac style
serial ports.
Brad Boyer
flar@allandria.com
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