On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 08:50:20AM +0000, Sunnanvind Briling Fenderson wrote: > 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 >
// hi, during boot, do you get the 2 high beeps, meaning that the box recognizes the pcmcia card "presence"? or, do you get a high beep and then a low one? or no beeps? if there are no beeps, you may want to reinstall to ensure that pcmcia support is included in the kernel; although, i'm sure there's another way to do it without a reinstall. (or it should be feasible by rolling a custom kernel.) if you get the boot beeps, you may just need to use setserial for the right config. is it possible to post dmesg? hth, bentley taylor. (i'm not an expert...just trying to give back to the community that has so greatly enriched my dlinux experience.) //
