You ought to know that any hardware device failure, pretty much, claims
to be "busy" even when that's far removed from the real problem.
You should probably verify that you have the right device.
Try this:
cat < /dev/modem (in one xterm)
cat >/dev/modem (in another)
In the second xterm, try:
AT
Do you get a response?
ls -l /dev/modem.
Does it seems like a plausible device? What device are you asking for
in kppp?
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, you wrote:
| The NIC section of the RealPort card is working fine...it talks at 100Mb
| with the rest of my LAN and even surfs thru the ICS gateway just fine.
| The Modem is a different story, as far as I could can tell it's setup
| properly(but I'll be honest and say I have never had to setup a modem under
| linux before, has been all network based....usually servers) but whenever I
| try to dial out with kppp it says the modem is busy. I have not spent a
| huge amount of time on it, since it gets out to the net thru the DSL line.
| --Dave
|
| At 07:55 PM 4/2/00, Tom Berkley wrote:
| >Dave
| >
| >What's the problem with your NIC/Modem?
| >
| >Tom
| >
| >
| >Dave Brown wrote:
| > >
| > > My Inspiron 7000 is currently dualbooting Win98SE and Mandrake 7.0.2 quite
| > > nicely. The only problem i am having is getting the Xircom Realport
| > > NIC/Modem working properly. NIC is fine but the modem is not cooperating.
| > > --Dave
| > >
| > > Brian T. Schellenberger typethed the following...
| > >
| > > >Just a quick note . . .
| > > >
| > > >The newer, higher-end Inspirons (7500) are among those on which Dell
| > > >*does* offer Linux shipped, and on which Linux works quite well.
| > > >(That's what I'm using right now, in fact.)
| > > >
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