You might have gotten the modem on the wrong serial port. Happened to me just yesterday (yea, I'm a newbie too). Thing is: com1 is ttyS0 in linux, com2 is ttyS1 aso. Kind of silly, that pon doesn't give any kind of information on what it's doing... hth Vitux
> -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: Stephen Monroe [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sendt: 15. juli 1999 02:39 > Til: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: recipient list not shown > Emne: modem configuration > > A friend installed Debian Potato on my box a while ago when I was using > the > Ethernet at school, but now I must use a modem at home and I can't get it > to > work. > > Here is what I've done: > > Using setserial I found > IRQ: 3 > Port: 0x02f8 > then pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf > then I uncommented the lines that corresponded with the values I got with > setserial (I'm pretty sure they are correct) > Then I ran "ln -s /dev/ttyS1 /dev/modem" > and I made sure isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf is running at start up. > I configured my modem in gnome-ppp, but when I try to connect nothing > happens. > I then ran "pon", but still nothing happened. > > Any thoughts (keeping in mind I'm a beginner)? > > --Stephen > > > _______________________________________________________________ > Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null
