"Michael D. Crawford" wrote: > > Well, I've made some progess. What I needed was the file drivers.tgz, > not either of the files driver-1.bin or driver-2.bin. Not sure what > they're for. > > Once I was able to install my modules, I could enable the use of the ppp > and compression modules. > > And _somewhere_ on a web page that some helpful soul wrote, I read that > the initial name of the provider configuration that is given in > pppconfig must be left as "provider". My provider is mint.net so I was > changing the name to mint. > > But I still can't dial in. I don't seem to get any response from the > modem. And by watching for the modem lights blinking, I don't seem to > have any data transmitted to the modem (no blinking). It's not a > cabling problem, as I can dial in with the same setup under Mac OS 8.6 > from my 8500 (where I'm sending this mail from). > > I booted off the ramdisk, mounted my filesystems and went into a shell > so I could look at /var/log/messages. I saw that pppd was attempting to > talk to the modem but was not getting any response. I'm sorry but I > don't have the exact text of the messages but it was something like: > > send ATZ > expect OK > alarm > > shortly after which it aborts. > > I looked up the modem init string from another linux installation that > I've successfully used and ut was AT&FH0. I tried that, and it didn't > work either. I don't think it's the modem init string because I'd see > the light on the modem blink. (It's a Hayes 56k external faxmodem). > > When the machine boots I see a message regarding the serial ports being > detected, so the kernel does detect the serial ports. However, if I get > into a shell off the ramdisk and do the following: > > echo hello > /dev/ttyS1 > > I don't see any blinking. ttyS0 doesn't blink either, and ttyS2 and > ttyS3 produce an error message about being unable to create something. > > This is on an older, "old world" mac, an 8500. Modern macintoshes do > not have serial ports. Could there be either a bug in the serial > drivers in the installation kernel, or could the support for my serial > ports not be included in the kernel?
You might have to load the macserial driver as well from the drivers-n-modules section. You should be able to tell by looking to see if ttyS shows up in /proc/devices. a
