On Sat, 28 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I have tried building ppp support into the kernel as both a module and just
> straight in and tried compiling with CONFIG_MODVERSIONS both to yes and no
> without success. dmesg says something about ppp and it sees my modem, so I
> don't know what's up:
>
> PPP: version 2.3.3 (demand dialling)
> TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
> PPP line discipline registered.
>
> To get the 2.0.xx kernels to set up my modem correctly, I've got
> 'setserial /dev/ttyS2 port 0x3e8 irq 5' in my /etc/rc.d/rc.local (Red Hat)
> and it works perfectly. When booting a 2.1.12x kernel and hitting this
> setserial, it always reports:
hehe nice..why don't u try to set it up from /etc/inittab??
>
> /dev/ttyS2: Device or resource busy
>
ok ..take a look in your /etc/inittab to see if ttyS2 it's not
already assignet or locked.
> which I think is my big problem, but I don't know what could be causing this.
> And when I try to use my ppp script, I get the following error:
>
> /usr/sbin/pppd: This system lacks kernel support for PPP. This could be
> because the PPP kernel module is not loaded, or because the kernel is
> not configured for PPP. See the README.linux file in the
> ppp-2.3.5 distribution.
>
well try to compile your kernel :) with pppd networking support
try this first...i hope it will workk...
ahh. btw ..what kind of modem do u habe?? internal or external??
if it's internal u may have some irq conflicts...for example on my
computer i have two modems..a catv modem and another one internal.
the last one work properly only on 2e8 irq5.
anyway try frist to open it's port using minicom ..try some nit string and
than ata.
ok that's all check out,
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