"Riley, Patrick (Patrick)** CTR **" wrote:
>
> Hi everyone, I'm about ready to explode because I can't get this problem
> figured out. I just recently switched to Mandrake 7.1 from Redhat 6.2 and
> I'm
>
> trying to dial through KPPP and I keep getting "modem is busy". I also try
> to go dial out through other things (minicom, and so on) and I get pretty
> much the same response. I had this modem working fine under Redhat by just
> adding the "setserial /dev/ttyS0 port 0xdc00 irq 5" line but now it won't
> work with
>
> Mandrake. What could have changed? Is something conflicting with my modem
> (by the way, it is NOT a winmodem)? It's a US Robotics 56k Model
>
> 2977. I've copied some of my system info below if it might help. I would
> appreciate any help that anyone could give on how I might get this working.
>
> Thanks.
> My machine is a Athlon 650, 128Mb RAM, Abit Ka7 if it helps.
Ok...first of all if you're listing the correct com ports (/dev/ttyS0)
that you have the modem setup on then it's no wonder the modem isn't
working cause /dev/ttyS0 is COM port 1 and that's where the mouse goes.
Mandrake will install the mouse there by default during the installation
unless you tell it otherwise. It doesn't matter whether you're using a
PS/2 mouse or a serial mouse. It will be assigned the device port of
/dev/ttyS0.
The modem is generally placed on /dev/ttyS1 (COM 2) and works there
quite happily. Change the setting for your modem in the KPPP setup
options and try dialing out again. This should work for you.
--
Mark
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