[lug] Dialup modems and Linux

[John Karns]

On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Justin-lists said:

> Pnp is turned off in the bios. I know my isa modem is on ttyS1 because
> I can get tone from it and get it to dial via minicom. So I know linux
> can see that modem, sort of. Nothing else will access though, like
> wvdial won't see the isa modem nor will the redhat-config-network
> probe the modem. I just don't see how minicom can see it and I use the
> exact same modem location (/dev/modem linked to /dev/ttyS1) but none
> of the other programs can see it.

It sounds like maybe your authentication is failing with the ISA modem.
In /etc/ppp there are two debug flags you can set: debug and kdebug.
Make sure their set and try again.  You should see plenty of ppp info in
your system logs then, which hopefully will give you some clues.

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John Karns                                        jkarns at csd.net