At 01:29 PM 1/26/1999 -0500, Michelle Coelho wrote: > > Hi , I'm the person whose mail you'd replied to regarding whether I'd have > problems > with my mouse since it wasn't plugged in at the time of installing Linux... > Anyway now, I'm having problems with my modem. As you advised me, I bought a > 56k External modem. It's a Cardinal Connecta V.34. I plugged it into the > serial 1 port > of my PC. Since the mouse is in the mouse port, which I assume is ttyS0, I > configured > the modem for ttyS1. I answered all the questions as asked by pppconfig to > the best of > my knowledge. Then I quit the program having wrote all the files. At the > command
As a general rule, a mouse port is /dev/aux, and the serial ports would be /dev/ttyS0 (COM1 in the DOS/Win world) and /dev/ttyS1 (COM2). As a test, you can type echo ATDT[some_phone_number] > /dev/ttyS[0-3] If you hear the modem dialing out, you've found the correct ttyS number. Then you can type echo ATZ > /dev/ttyS[whichever_number] to hang up the modem. Now configure your /etc/ppp/peers/provider file accordingly, and you should be able to dial out. <snip> I don't see if any of this will be of use, but I've given it just incase. I wanted to buy a > > 56k internal, but many people advised me against it saying that it wouldn't > work on > my 486. So I bought a 33.6K internal modem..Do you think I should use an > internal > modem instead of the external one..My ISP provides 56k speed. Also my ISP > provides PAP (I think ) since almost everyone who connects to it uses Windows > 95 or > higher. Also, the modem came with some installation floppies for Windows > (but, > then, what doesn't, nowadays??!), but this is not a Winmodem..at least it > doesn't call > itself that. Will I have to write some chatscript or something??? So you have two modems? They might concievably be conflicting with each other, if they're both configured to the same port/irg/etc. I'd use whichever gives the best response (probably the external 56K, but not necessarily if your 486 has the slower UART chips on the COM card). > > > If possible, please explain things to me in as much layman's language as you > can...A > prompt reply would be tremendously appreciated. > > Thank you so much. > > >
