[Gllug] newbie / modem

[Ivan Virgili]

At 05/12/02 09:15 +0000, Ivan Virgili wrote:
>I am still a newbie, so I got worried when I saw all those warnings.
>I tried to install the drivers anyway, but it seems to me that the modem 
>doesn't want to work.
>
>I will try again tonight. You and Pete said that the output is ok, so if 
>it works with SuSE it has to work with Red Hat...


Hello there...

Last night I tried to install the drivers anyway, but the modem was still 
not working (PCI modem with Intel 536ep chipset).
I decided it was time to start investigating why.

I finally found out, after opening different files (for ex. wvdial.conf), 
that the modem was set as /dev/modem -> /dev/536ep (ls -l /dev/modem), but 
the Internet connection had the modem set as /dev/ttyS2 (COM 3, that's the 
modem port).
I simply changed /dev/ttyS2 with /dev/modem for the Internet connection and 
now RH Linux knows that there is a modem installed to be used when I want 
to go on the net.

Unfortunately I still have a problem.
When I click to activate the Internet connection, RH dials my provider's 
number and while the two modems are communicating it hangs up and starts 
calling again.
I tried to have a look at the settings in SuSE (were everything as worked 
perfectly since the beginning) and I made a few changes in RH, but I wasn't 
successful.

Any idea on what I could do?

Thanks again... Ciao.. Ivan  



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