On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 06:14:59PM +0200, Alexander Maryanovsky wrote:
>
> >> 2. Running "startmodem" (from Hetz's instructions) results in the
> >firmware
> >> being installed, the modem initialized and then the following was
> >printed:
> >> Connect Modem ...
> >> using channel 1
> >> ioctl(PPPIOCGFLAGS): Inappropriate ioctl for device
> >> Connexion failed
> >>
> >
> >
> >Is `startmodem' a shell script? If it is then once again, try to
> >isolate the offending command by running the commands manually. A better
> >idea might be set +/- x.
> >If it is not a shell script then strace it. Next steps might be to get
> >the source and use a debugger. I believe it is less scary then some
> >people think. Hopefully people here will hold your hand if you are new
> >to these things.
> >Maybe this has something with the way you configured PPP?
> >Maybe someone has a better answer?
>
> Since this seems to be something Hetz wrote (or at least knows a lot
> about), I was thinking that maybe he would know what the problem is
> immediately. Since it seems to be a configuration problem (i.e. not a bug
> or a hardware problem), I don't think debugging or stracing it will help,
> as there probable *is* no "offending" command. Probably one of the commands
> fails, but we already know why - it told us exactly why:
>
> ioctl(PPPIOCGFLAGS): Inappropriate ioctl for device
>
>
I am not knowledgeable enough to get to the bottom of the problem by that
message. It is very cryptic to me and I need a lot more information.
I guess that there are people who read that message differently. I also
guess that Hetz would have replied if he knew the answer off the top
of his head. It can also be that he hasn't seen your message for some
reason: maybe he is too busy lately. In any case, if I was in your shoes
and no one else would give me a better suggestion and I would still
anxious to do something about it then those things were what I would
have do.
In short, take it or leave it.
>
> >It is my suggestion to get it working first. There is a possibility
> >that it will not happen once the modem will work in a satisfactory
> >manner.
>
> What will not happen? The "breakage" or me needing to dual boot? :-)
>
>
The `breakage', hopefully. But you seems to be on the right track :-)
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