Fred A. Miller wrote:
David Rankin wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Fred A. Miller [mailto:fmiller@lightlink.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 2:35 PM To: opensuse Subject: [opensuse] USR5610C
The USR5610C PCI modem arrived today, and I guess I should have known it wouldn't "fly" out of the box. :( Yast SEEMS to see it, but I get the error: "Unable to create the modem lock file" when trying to connect with KPPP. I did make myself a member of the "modem" group. Nothing I've tried works. Does anyone know of a fix?
Thanks!
Fred
Fred,
I think it is the 'uucp' group. If that fails, try the 'sys' group. My modem is /dev/ttyS1. Here is the way my serial ports are owned:
root@nemesis:/home/david # ll /dev/ttyS* crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 64 2007-09-25 16:48 /dev/ttyS0 crw------- 1 uucp uucp 4, 65 2007-09-25 16:49 /dev/ttyS1 crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 66 2007-09-25 16:46 /dev/ttyS2 crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 67 2007-09-25 16:46 /dev/ttyS3 crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 68 2007-09-25 16:46 /dev/ttyS4 crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 69 2007-09-25 16:46 /dev/ttyS5 crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 70 2007-09-25 16:46 /dev/ttyS6 crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 71 2007-09-25 16:46 /dev/ttyS7
Also, depending on the application I often create the link 'ln -s /dev/ttyS1 /dev/modem' to help the older software out....
There wasn't any /dev/modem file, however, adding the group listings DID solve the problem. Now, I get dialout, but ppp times out. There were 3 files that KPPP couldn't open in /var/log so I manually created them. Now I don't get that complaint, but PPP still seems to time out. I'm at a loss what it needs at this point.....oh yes, I did set the "timeout" as 90 secs....didn't help.
Thanks!
Fred
For dial-out ppp, all I did was set up kinternet which is just KDE's front end to wvdial. The dial-out ppp for me didn't require any configuration other than setting the username, password, #ToDial. Surely you do, but check and make sure you have wvdial and kinternet installed. If it is a modem connection problem, it never hurts to have minicom installed so you can open up an konsole interface to the modem and check/set the default modem reset command string. For the USR modems the 'ati5' command will show all stored modem profiles and allow you to dig further. The reason I like kinternet also, is you have the option to display the modem communication log right in front of you without having to 'tailf somelogfile'. (I always hate it when the other guys says "gee, it was simple" ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org