On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 11:13:46AM +0100, Thys van der Merwe wrote: > Hi > > I hope someone can help me with this. > > I loaded the Debian base on my laptop, hoping to get the rest of the > packages off the net using dselect. > > At first I thought that I had a problem using pppconfig, so I got Minicom > and wvdial and found that after issuing ATZ to the modem that the modem > wasn't responding. It is an external modem on the serial port. The laptop > has a trackball and no other mouse. The modem was on and when issuing ATZ > did flicker a few lights, but other than that did nothing. In fact, > wvdialconf doesn't even detect the modem. > > I then thought the modem was broken and took it off, attached it to a win > machine and could connect to the net within minutes. > > If anyone could help me with this problem, I would be very greatful. >
Is your serial port detected at boot-time? Did you configure the serial port with setserial? You need to go through /etc/serial.conf to see if the settings are there.... > Thanks > > Thys Joop -- Joop Stakenborg PA4TU, ex-PA3ABA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux Amateur Radio Software Database http://radio.linux.org.au