Your serial port that your modem uses is probable using an IRQ greater than 4. If so, Linux won't detect the serial port. You have to tell Linux that the serial port is using IRQ n. Check in windows first: find out which COM your modem is in. Then check which IRQ this COM is usin: control pannel ==> system ==> device manager ==> computer
If your modem is in COM3 (ttyS2 in Linux) and COM3 is using IRQ 5 then you have to issue the command setserial /dev/ttyS2 irq 5. And boom! your modem will be found by wvdial. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ \_ Isabelle Poueriet \_ \_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \_ \_ http://www.bway.net \_ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Q. How many Microsoft Engineers does it take to screw in a light bulb? A. None. They declare "darkness", the standard. On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Joop Stakenborg wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 11:13:46AM +0100, Thys van der Merwe wrote: > > Hi > > > > I hope someone can help me with this. > > > > I loaded the Debian base on my laptop, hoping to get the rest of the > > packages off the net using dselect. > > > > At first I thought that I had a problem using pppconfig, so I got Minicom > > and wvdial and found that after issuing ATZ to the modem that the modem > > wasn't responding. It is an external modem on the serial port. The laptop > > has a trackball and no other mouse. The modem was on and when issuing ATZ > > did flicker a few lights, but other than that did nothing. In fact, > > wvdialconf doesn't even detect the modem. > > > > I then thought the modem was broken and took it off, attached it to a win > > machine and could connect to the net within minutes. > > > > If anyone could help me with this problem, I would be very greatful. > > > > Is your serial port detected at boot-time? > Did you configure the serial port with setserial? > You need to go through /etc/serial.conf to see if the settings > are there.... > > > Thanks > > > > Thys > > Joop > -- > > Joop Stakenborg PA4TU, ex-PA3ABA > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Linux Amateur Radio Software Database > http://radio.linux.org.au > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
