🚀 go-pugleaf

If you haven't already thought of it, you could try and run minicom
to try talking to your modem.

- Nick.

Barry O'Neill wrote:
> 
> 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