[ale] Kppp - newbie in trouble

[Geoffrey]

Look in /var/log/messages for any boot info regarding the modem.  Is it 
a winmodem?  Look for docs taht say it requires a pentium or higher 
processor.  If it does, it's a winmodem and you'll have limited luck 
getting it to work under Linux (although some will).

Your modem is on ttyS1 since its com2 under windows.

com1 == ttyS0
com2 == ttyS1
comN == ttyS(N-1)

Forget about the cua devices, they are deprecated.

William Coles wrote:
> Greetings Hack-Heads and Nix Gurus!
> 
> Newbie here, looking for some pointers. I'm having trouble establishing a
> ppp connection when booted into Slackware (7.0). I've been reading through
> manuals and trying to figure things out on my own, but thus far to no avail.
> I'm starting to wonder if the version of Linux I'm running just won't talk
> to my modem. Before I go out and spend money on a new hardware external
> modem, I'm trying to see if I can make things work. Any advice would be
> greatly appreciated. Here's the low down so far:
> 
> My box:
> 
> Aesus board, Pentium II processor, 256 MB RAM, two HDD's. I'm dual booting
> Win2k and Slackware (on separate partitions, but both on the first HDD).
> Modem is a PCI Diamond Supra Express 56k sp i. In Windows, it is located on
> Intel 82371AB/EB PCI to ISA bridge (ISA Mode). It's on COM 2 IRQ 5 I/O
> 03E8 - 03EF. the driver is winnt\system32\drivers\modem.sys It is a plug and
> play modem as well.
> 
> 
> The Issue:
> 
> Install of Linux went smooth as silk. Boots fine, LILO does it's thing.
> Running X Window, using KDE and Kppp. No connectivity. Using Setup in Kppp,
> I have changed the device and than ran Query Modem with the following
> results:
> 
> dev/ttyS0
> dev/ttyS1
> dev/cua0
> 
> all report back "Modem ready" when running the query, but then when the
> Modem Query Results window shows up, all the ATI fields are empty. Also all
> other dev's report either 'Can't open modem' or 'Modem is busy'
> 
> I have tried going to Term as well. On the /dev/ttyS0, ttyS1 and cua0 it
> reports "initializing modem" than "modem ready" but when entering ATI
> commands, nothing happens.
> 
> What I've tried:
> 
> cat/proc/pci (as root) to see if I could find the port for the modem to do
> setserial/ttyS0 (or ttyS1 or cua0) uart 16550A port (enter port hex) IRQ 5
> 
> The only thing I found that might be it is "serial controller: unknown
> vendor unknown device. which listed a port hex code, but no IRQ. I tried to
> setserial using this port and using cua0. Still nada in Kppp.
> 
> Is there hope???
> 
> Any advice will be greatly appreciated. I'm loving my Linux, but it should
> would be better online...
> 
> Thanks for your time,
> 
> Bill
> 
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