Re: PPP

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From: Roy Schelkers
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 00:00

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Mr.White wrote:

> I'm having some trouble setting up my PPP in linux. I'm running Slakware
> 3.4.  Problem is..the script doesn't seem to find my modem, but minicom will
> find it..heh but I don't really know the commands for minicom cuz I just got

Hi!

I'm fairly new to this too, installed Slackware 3.3 a few weeks ago. As
a matter of fact, at the time of this writing, I succeeded in connecting
to my ISP for the first time using Linux!  *GRIN*

To tell you the truth, I don't know too much about the subject of
PPP-connections at this moment, but I did learn some things that you
seem to be struggling with also.

First, you should look at the symbolic link in /dev and see if
/dev/modem points to /dev/cuax or /dev/ttySx (where x is the
port-number). I had a similar problem because Minicom looked at
/dev/ttyS1 and my /dev/modem was linked to /dev/cua1... My PPP-script
looked at the wrong place... at I restored the sym.link and it worked!

Also, check if you have no lockfile in /var/lock, I had one of those in
there (LCK..CUA1) and it didn't work a bit... ;-(

I hope I may have been of some help to you. 

regards,

Roy

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From: Roy Schelkers <roys@xs4all.nl>
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Date: 1998/02/22
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