Re: Installing modem.

["Aaron W. Hsu" <noorah@aaronhsu.com>]

> What program generated the connection between the modem's 8 I/O lines
> d000-d007 and /dev/ttyS3 and what would happen if I rm /dev/ttyS4 and maybe
> /dev/ttyS3 as well and remade, with MAKEDEV, ttyS3 and then run the program
> that makes the original connection.
> Regards;
> Hoyt

Alright, I am wondering, did you diff the dmesg before you put your
modem in with the one after?  That might help in figuring out some
things.  I think you can go ahead and remake the ttyS3 and 4 devices,
and try again.  I am also a little confused, when you dial out, do you
hear the dial tone and the phone number being dialed, then it cuts
out; or do you just get a "modem not responding" error?  What I am
asking is, exactly where does the initialization and dialing begin to
fail?

Instead of using ATDT###-#### you might want to look at some of the
scripts and try running some of the modem scripts, assuming your modem
is that far along, and see what happens.  It would be really nice to
see the exact errors that are happening, i.e.-the output from the
modem commands.  There is a program that allows you to manually enter
a shell like interface and run modem commands, you should be able to
see the output.  I only used this on OpenBSD a while ago though, so I
don't know what the program is.  You can also try WVDial, which is
essentially like kppp and some of the others, in that it auto-detects
and is pretty smart about getting things right; I found that it is a
nice program for debugging and general use, it's also console based.
;-)

Aaron Hsu