🚀 go-pugleaf

Ben Watson wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I've been trying to setup ppp on my Red Hat 5.0 box and had a few
> problems..
> 
> I've tried the Networking Setup utility under Control Panel in XF86 and
> had no luck.. I'm sure that's all setup ok, as I've had some pretty
> detailed advice as to how to use this utility from replies to previous
> postings and also, I've a reasonably good idea (famous last words !) of
> what I'm at Unix-wise.
> 
> Anyway, I'm sure my modem's not being accessed properly, if at all. eg.
> no noise from it when it's meant to be dialing and so on. (cf. the std
> modem noises when dialing via (ahem) Win 95).
> 
> when I tailed /var/log/messages (or whatever that logfile's called), I
> got:
> 
> Feb 25 00:27:35 localhost pppd[1374]: Exit.
> Feb 25 00:27:35 localhost ifup-ppp: pppd started for ppp1 on /dev/modem
> at 115200
> Feb 25 00:27:35 localhost pppd[1384]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0
> Feb 25 00:27:35 localhost pppd[1384]: tcgetattr: Input/output error
> Feb 25 00:27:35 localhost pppd[1384]: Exit.
> Feb 25 00:27:35 localhost ifup-ppp: pppd started for ppp1 on /dev/modem
> at 115200
> Feb 25 00:27:41 localhost ifup-ppp: pppd started for ppp1 on /dev/modem
> at 115200

> Does this indicate a problem handling the modem, or is it something
> inside ppp or what ?
> 
> What's a quick/easy (& optionally nasty) way of checking access to the
> modem from linux ?

Check to see if you can use either /dev/cuaX or /dev/ttysX in the Modem
Setup section of Control Panel.  Also, if you've only got one modem,
ppp1 doesn't look right, I think it should be ppp0.

HTH.

regards,

Barry