RE: Continuing saga...

[(Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk>]

On 16-Apr-99 Small, Bradley wrote:
> 
> Problem #1, I have a modem on Com1. I know I do because Bill Gates
> tells me I do when I run His OS. Try as I might I can't seem to
> convince Linux that it is there. I assume that I should be using
> wvdial and when it ran the configuration utility it said that it
> didn't detect any modem. So I read the man page and setup the
> wvdial.conf file. I pointed it to each /dev/ttySn
> 0,1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 with no real difference except that 0 threw
> a different kind of error.

You may well have the modem on /dev/ttyS0 = COM1, but you probably also
have your mouse there as well. In that case you are likely to hit
interrupt conflicts, and Linux will only see one of the devices.

Suggestion:

either move your mouse to /dev/ttyS1 -- plug into the COM2 port, then

  rm /dev/mouse
  ln -s /dev/ttyS1 /dev/mouse

or move your modem to COM2 (may involve changing jumper settings;
I don't know what to do if the modem is PnP), then

  rm /dev/modem
  ln -s /dev/ttyS1 /dev/modem

or (perhaps better -- comments from others advisable here):

  ln -s /dev/cua1 /dev/modem

(the ttyS* and cua* devices are hardware-equivalent, but if I'm
not mistaken using the /dev/cua* device is better for dialin, which
you might want for a modem).

Hope this helps,
Ted.

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Date: 16-Apr-99                                       Time: 14:55:31
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