[plug] PCI Modem troubleshooting

[Garry]

Try ttyS0 and ttyS1.. 

HTH

Garry



On Thu, 17 Apr 2003 08:27:28 +0800
"Jason Smuts" <jason at mantacom.com> wrote:

> I have just installed a 56k PCI Modem into a machine running Debain
> (Woody) 3.0 in the hope of setting it up as my internet gateway on a
> small network.  Anyway, I've only recently switched to Linux so there
> are still many mysteries ... 
> 
> Under Windows, the modem was visible as an additional COM port (COM3),
> however, when I configured ppp to use /dev/ttyS2 I get no response from
> the modem (also tried ttyS3).  'lspci' lists my modem as '00:11.0
> Rockwell ...' so I know it can see it.  My next step would normally be
> to use a program like 'HyperTerminal' to connect directly to each port
> and issue 'AT' commands but I haven't found such a program.  I tried
> 'minicom' but it didn't seem to give me direct access to the port?  I
> didn't like it anyway (no offense anyone).
> 
> Questions:
> 1) Should the modem be accessible via ttyS2? (or ttyS3) or is it some
> other mechanism I don't know about?
> 2) If so, is there some simple shell script that will redirect stdin to
> /dev/ttySX And the output from /dev/ttySX to stdout? (Effectively giving
> me a comms terminal like Hyperterminal)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jason
> 
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