modem @ COM4; howto install driver
I just installed debian 3.0; however, I can't get ppp to dial out.
plog output shows:
chat[263]:Can't get terminal parameters: Input/Output error
setserial -g /dev/ttyS3 shows:
UART: 16550A, Port: 0x1400, IRQ: 18
the Port and IRQ I got from winxp device manager. I've also got
an ethnet card which apparently is active; hence, I wonder if I should
disable that. OTOH, maybe I should install a driver for the conextant
HCF modem I've got. But then, I'm unsure how to do that. I suppose
the Makefile for the driver will set the proper Major and Minor numbers
for the device, but then I guess it must ask for what device is my modem.
However, I can't do that because I haven't a c compiler yet. I can't get
a c compiler until my modem is up. Hence, what I've done is download
the c compiler .deb files on my windows machine, mounted the windows
partition on /mnt/winxp, but now I can't figure how to use apt to dselect
to install the debs. I've read the www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto;
however, it claims one step in the installation is to use dpkg-scanpackages.
However, there's no such program, as yet.
Would someone suggest how I should solve this problem?
TIA.
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