On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, scott hussey wrote: > I am a very novice Linux/Debian user and am trying to setup minicom. I am > curious about how to get minicom to recognize my modem. I read in the man > page that most linux systems have the serial port as /dev/modem or > /dev/cua#. How can I get Linux to install my modem as a dev. Currently, > pppd recognizes my modem as ttys2, but minicom gives me the message 'I/O > Error' when it tries to open ttys2. Any help is greatly appreciated. >
so I'm no expert here, but I certainly had to go through alot to get my modem to work with debian (but then, I use a laptop with pcmcia card modem :-) ). I think you mean /dev/ttyS2. The serial ports are /dev/ttyS# and equal com port numbers minus one (i.e. com1 = /dev/ttyS0, etc). My modem card installs at com2 so I use /dev/ttyS1. I have been told that /dev/cua# is deprecated and that docs using /dev/cua# are out of date (sigh ...). I'm pretty sure that /dev/modem is just a symbolic link (at least it is on my machine) so to make /dev/modem type ln -s /dev/ttyS2 /dev/modem you also need to check to make sure that /dev/ttyS2 is set for the proper irq and port # for your modem. read the docs that came with your modem and check to see what irq it's expecting to use and what memory address and then type setserial -a /dev/ttyS2 and see what it says. If not, you can use setserial to change those values (read the man pages on setserial), or you can check to see if one of the other serial ports is actually the one you want (setserial -a /dev/ttyS0, etc). If your modem is internal, debian should be able to detect it on start-up since it detects most serial ports on startup but I'm not sure since again I use a laptop and usually my modem isn't in one of my card slots on bootup. At any rate you can see which ports where detected by typing dmesg after startup and logging in. You'll get a list of devices detected at startup and other messages too. I'm sure someone else here can give you alot more info (probably more accurate too), but this is my attempt. HTH - John Kloss -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]