Re: Newbie Install - Serial port and PPP does not work

1998-06-11 Thread Shaleh
Glad it is working now! I will add an item to the FAQ-o-matic telling people to ignore that file. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie Install - Serial port and PPP does not work

1998-06-11 Thread john
Raj writes: > I was focussed on the other file in ppp directory called optionsttySXX. > And I did not see any reference to the port in that file except the file > name. The comment inside that file says that I should rename that file > for my serial port to optionttyS1 and edit it to put my hostna

Re: Newbie Install - Serial port and PPP does not work

1998-06-11 Thread Raj_Gole
Hi All, We can close this thread. PPP works now. Thanks for all those who jumped in to help me. I really like the response time of this list. First response from Shaleh was in ten minutes. WOW!! Here is the scoop. I un-installed PPP package and installed it again. It still did not work.

Re: Newbie Install - Serial port and PPP does not work

1998-06-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 08:29:20PM -0400, Shaleh wrote: > Non-free can not be on a CD, that is the point of it being called > "non-free". As to your problem here goes (I help maintain the > FAQ-o-matic). Well, if it by definition could not go on CD, it should be called non-CD. Some parts of it AR

Re: Newbie Install - Serial port and PPP does not work

1998-06-11 Thread Shaleh
Non-free can not be on a CD, that is the point of it being called "non-free". As to your problem here goes (I help maintain the FAQ-o-matic). COM2 is /dev/ttyS1. You can make a /dev/modem w/ "ln -s ttyS1 modem". While in the dev directory. The "No PPP support in kernel" is caused by it trying

Newbie Install - Serial port and PPP does not work

1998-06-11 Thread Raj_Gole
Hi All, About a year with Linux (Slackware, Caldera) new to Debian. Just Installed 1.3.1 (bo) CD format from Linux Mall on the same hardware that used previous OSs.I saw some problems during the install as the CD image was not true to the source. dselect complained about certain directories.