Happy with ppp finally ;-)

[Isabelle Poueriet <bella@bway.net>]

Thanks very much to those who took your time to help me out with this
problem.
I finally got my modem to respond.  

I notice that other people were having similar problem so this is all I
did:

I went to Windows and found out where my modem was(COM and IRQ). So I
found out it was in Com3(ttyS2 in Debian) and using IRQ 5.  I typed:
<setserial -a /dev/ttyS2> to find out that the kernel was looking for
ttyS2 in IRQ 4.
So I used this command to assign ttyS2 to IRQ 5: 
 <setserial /dev/ttyS2 irq5>
and this solved my problem.  After this command I ran wvdial and I heard
the modem dialing out.

I'm now a happy girl thanks to all who helped from this list.

I think they should have these instructions on the web in the section
"Configuring PPP", or maybe another section, "Configuring your serial
ports" or something.  I went through the installation mannual on the web
and found nothing on this issue. 

Again, thanks very much for all your time and input.

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\_ Isabelle Poueriet   \_ 
\_ bella@bway.net      \_
\_ http://www.bway.net \_
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Q. How many Microsoft Engineers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A. None.  They declare "darkness", the standard.

On 26 Jun 1999, John Hasler wrote:

> Isabelle Poueriet writes:
> > This is really confusing. I thought the garbage test I was receiving when
> > I typed pppd was a sign that the modem sent a signal.
> 
> That was coming from pppd itself.
> 
> Type 'setserial -a /dev/ttyS2' and report the results.
> -- 
> John Hasler
> john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
> Dancing Horse Hill
> Elmwood, WI
>