Patrick, perhaps you should seek professional mental health services. I am sorry I was not able to address this attack on my person until just now as I have been busy. Patrick there are an number of good Windoze for dummies books out there for your kind. Forget about Unix and perhaps maybe with great effort you may be able to learn to use a newbie OS like windoze ... then again, maybe not. Have and A+ day! On Wednesday 05 June 2002 09:05 pm, Patrick wrote:
Max Webb,
You are so full of it, it smells all the way over here! :o)
Check your port numbers again and then check your own external modem, if you have one! From his Linux readout, his modem seems to be showing up on Com1 and the second port is misconfigured in his bios as it should be 2F8 instead of 2E8! Have you seen his machine yourself? Do you know how many serial ports he has showing up on the back of his computer? I doubt it and if you further check the port number addresses I think you will find differences there as well. Also, Linux checks for the devices attached to those ports it finds and tries to get the max readout from it. Since he has a 56k modem, it stands to reason that the higher reading will show up there, because 9600 baud is the standard nothing hooked up port speed reading. Did you take a look?
My guess is you haven't been keeping up with the thread as he has tried the /dev/ttyS3 already without success! What turnip truck did you just get off of today? I hope you don't continue to confuse the gentleman much more with your superior intellect or he will give up trying to fix it!
Patrick ----------------------------
On Wednesday 05 June 2002 12:52, Max Webb wrote:
Sorry for the delay in my response. The summer at my college just started. OK DO NOT listen to these other guys that are giving you advice as it seems that they have not read the complete thread of the conversation, are addressing only individual posts and not the overall problem and its full details, and are therefore complicating matters and my job in helping you. Patrick is WRONG. The modem that we want to configure is NOT assigned as com 1 ! From the results of linux:/home/galt # cat /proc/tty/driver/serial we see that you in fact have two serial modems/nics/devices as part of your system (you obviously have an extra internal serial device) . The MODEM WE ARE CONCERNED WITH is the external one plugged in your serial port. OK you sent me this info about your modem:
my info is such:
US RObotic external Fax modem on Windows Com4, IRQ 3 at address 2E8
If you compare that to the output of cat /proc/tty/driver/serial you find that your modem is configured for /dev/ttyS3 It matches exactly.
OK type the following exactly, remember you must type this exactly, case is vital and don't forget spaces where they are indicated. this means space <space>........ space, but do not type these characters. alternately you can cut and paste each example that follows (but not the ones with <space>). as root: ln<space>-s<space>/dev/ttyS3<space>/dev/modem
or better yet cut and paste the following as root:
ln -s /dev/ttyS3 /dev/modem
now fire up wvdial as a regular user: ie su <regular user name here> wvdial
If there are any error messages generated by any of the above commands or if this doesn't work, cut and past all error messages in an email to me. OK hope this works. if not we will fix it. Max
On Tuesday 04 June 2002 06:23 pm, Forrest Halford wrote:
Okay guys here is the output on the cat /proc/tty/driver/serial command: Again, thanks for all of the help with the linux newbie,....I will try to return the favor. regards Forrest
linux:/home/galt # cat /proc/tty/driver/serial serinfo:1.0 driver:5.05c revision:2001-07-08 0: uart:16550A port:3F8 irq:4 baud:19200 tx:8 rx:0 RTS|DTR 1: uart:unknown port:2F8 irq:3 2: uart:unknown port:3E8 irq:4 3: uart:16550A port:2E8 irq:3 baud:9600 tx:8 rx:0 CTS|DSR
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