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installation of an internal modem on UNIX... mmm.. honestly, u are settin yourself up for some sleepless nights.. i would man the command setserial, but if u want things to go easier, install an external modem, and attach it to your serial ports.. u will have less of a problem..
good luck..
good luck..
Just managed to get mine going. I interrogated my Linux system to find out where it was and what other serial ports I had enabled;
In DOS speak, COM1 on IRQ 4 and COM4 on IRQ 3. My modem was on COM4 - in Linux my /dev/modem was linked to /dev/ttyS3 (i.e. COM4).
Back to BSD
I then had to re-compile my kernel to disable COM2 or sio1 and enable COM4 (sio3). sio3 was configured on IRQ3. I verified that the kernel had found sio3 in dmesg then attempted the following;
> ppp # This got ppp running
at the ppp prompt I tried > term /dev/cuaa3
At which point it bombed out with a bad deflink error and complained it couldn't open /dev/cuaa0. After wondering about this for a while I suddenly hit upon the idea that there might be a config file somewhere cocking things up and sure enough /etc/ppp/ppp.conf was there telling ppp to use /dev/cuaa0. I changed that and was able to get ppp going and dial out to my ISP - only as root though at the moment.
Anyway if you haven't already sussed this out, this should at least get you going.
greadey.
In DOS speak, COM1 on IRQ 4 and COM4 on IRQ 3. My modem was on COM4 - in Linux my /dev/modem was linked to /dev/ttyS3 (i.e. COM4).
Back to BSD
I then had to re-compile my kernel to disable COM2 or sio1 and enable COM4 (sio3). sio3 was configured on IRQ3. I verified that the kernel had found sio3 in dmesg then attempted the following;
> ppp # This got ppp running
at the ppp prompt I tried > term /dev/cuaa3
At which point it bombed out with a bad deflink error and complained it couldn't open /dev/cuaa0. After wondering about this for a while I suddenly hit upon the idea that there might be a config file somewhere cocking things up and sure enough /etc/ppp/ppp.conf was there telling ppp to use /dev/cuaa0. I changed that and was able to get ppp going and dial out to my ISP - only as root though at the moment.
Anyway if you haven't already sussed this out, this should at least get you going.
greadey.
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