[plug] Ideas, anyone

[Paul Dean]

At 12:07 PM 11/04/2001 +0800, you wrote:
>Couple of questions:
>
>1)  I just moved the mobo out of a defunct windows machine (seems there's
>problems w. the power switch?)  into my Linux box so that my nice K62/500
>can run a REAL OS.  Now, when I go to wvdialconf, Linux says "found 2 serial
>ports" followed by "there's something on ttyS1" followed by "but it ain't a
>modem!".  The first 2 bits are right, the lsat is dead wrong - I have an
>external modem on ttyS1.  Funny thing is, Linux finds and goes with my
>internal 33k6 on ttyS3 which I wound up putting in because of the external
>hassles.  Anyway, the question I have is, has anyone else run into this
>issue?  If so, how did you fix them?
>
>Before anyone asks, yes the plugs are on the mobo, yes they're the right way
>round, and yes, the BIOS says the ports are there and they're on standard
>I/O Address/IRQ.  The mobo is a Epox MVP3C2 (Via Apollo c/s)...

have you tried just setting up a modem from the console by creating 
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 file and a chat-ppp0 file and 
running /sbin/ifup ppp0 to dial your ISP.



Regards

Paul Dean
IT Support Officer
Canning College
Computing Centre
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paul at canningcollege.wa.edu.au