I've installed potato on my machine at home. The initial install was done with the base disks, then the rest of the packages were put on the machine using an ethernet card and a mirror of the unstable tree from a friends machine. I made a complete mirror on my machine using lftp, then removed the ethernet card, took the machine home and tried to set up ppp connections to my two providers. This is where the problems came.
pon won't do anything. More correctly, it starts a chat session, which doesn't manage to get anything through to the modem. chat just sits there sending ATZ and waiting for an OK. Doing it "by hand" doesn't work either. cu had terrible trouble getting to the modem, complaining about it being in use by another process, and denying permission even to root. There are no lock files mentioning /dev/ttyS? in /var/lock or /var/run. I decided to force the issue and chomd a+rxw /dev/ttyS1 this allows cu to run, and I can get a connection to the provided which allows terminal access. When I try to start ppp on a connection obtained through cu (which I have done successfully before), pppd complains that the cu process owns /dev/ttyS1 and won't allow a connection Ideas anyone? ---- Robert King, Australian Environmental Studies, Griffith University, Australia 3875 6677 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ens.gu.edu.au/robertk/ "This library is open one hour each fortnight. No book shall leave these premises. We have sworn it with an oath!" -- Library of King Ashurbanipal, Babylon, ca. 3000 BC.