----- Original Message ----- From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 19:07 Subject: Re: Installing modem.
> Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > > > >>You say "ttyS3 is different from ttyS0 & ttyS1"; um, yes. They're > >>different files. Maybe you mean something else when you say they're > >>"different"? > >> > > > > Yes, from dmesg: > > Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ > > SERIAL_PCI enabled > > ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A > > ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A > > Redundant entry in serial pci_table. Please send the output of > > lspci -vv, this message (12b9,1008,12b9,00d3) > > and the manufacturer and name of serial board or modem board > > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ttyS04 at port 0xd000 (irq = 19) is a 16550A > > > It looks like you have two serial ports on your motherboard (00 & 01), > in addition to your modem on 04. Apparently the PCI bus is getting > confused somehow. You might want to go into the BIOS and temporarily > disable the built-in serial ports, and see what that does for you. > > > > > I have sent the requested message to the sourceforge.net. with a cc to this > > list. > > > > > >>Why are you trying to transfer dmesg to floppy? Without knowing the > >>exact command you used, as whom, in what directory, it's hard to say > >>what might have gone wrong with your copy attempt. > >> > > > > Because somewhere in the diddleing I came across dmesg as the log file which > > I didnt know and thought it might have something that would help. > > > > But I'm unsure why you'd want to copy it to floppy. If you need it in a > file form, you can: > dmesg > dmesg.txt > and then copy dmesg.txt to wherever you want it, including floppy. If > you just want to see the dmesg messages, you can: > dmesg | more > I need to transport stuff to windows to make a hard copy &/or to include in an emale. Floppy is the only way I have to do that. > > > > >>What happens with the command: > >>echo "ATDT555-1234" > /dev/ttyS3 > > > > Nothing absolutely nothing and I can hear my modem sending. Dont have > > another number I can call. > > This I don't understand; you say it's doing "nothing absolutely nothing" > and then immediately say you hear the modem sending, which means it's > doing something. Either it's doing nothing or it's doing something. > Which is it? How about: When and if the modem dials my ISP I can hear The modem output untill a connection is made. I can assure you the modem is doing nothing on either ttys3 or ttys4. > > I also assume you didn't really use the bogus number "555-1234"? You > want to use a real number, say to your cell phone, or a second line, or > to the local time & temperature (I didn't say that - no one can prove I > did) and listen to the modem speaker for the time/temp announcement. If > this works, that means the computer is seeing your modem, your modem is > seeing the phone line, and the modem can dial out. > I used both the bogus number and my ISP's number & nothing happened. I dont think the modem is smart enough to know wheather the number is valid or not and a busy signal or error message from SBC is good enough. By the way the town is too small for time & temp and cell phone service stops at my frount door. Outside it works inside forget it. > -- > Kent > 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
