Serial port weirdness
Hi; I just installed Debian on my x86-notebook again (I ran it a lot last
year, but never really mastered it), and I tried to run pppconfig to
connect, via modem, to my ISP. Alas - it couldn't find my modem. At all.
It used to be able to do so. I tried wvdial (just in case); but it didn't
find it - it seemed like it couldn't even find that serial port. It asks
if I have configured it properly with setserial, or something to that
extent (I'm at work now; I'll see if I can dig up the exact error
message, if requested). I guess not.
It worked fine until a friend helped me get my pcmcia-network card
running, last fall - when I returned home from our lan-gathering I
couldn't dial up. I've since reformatted my ext2-partition (for various
reasons) and reinstalled Debian; but the same problem persists - the
serial port that the modem is connected to doesn't seem to work. I'm sure
I might have neglected something in the installation process, but what?
I currently dual boot Windows and dialing works fine from it. I'd like to
get back into running Debian full time as soon as possible.
Thanks for reading this letter;
Sunna
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