I don't know the hardware, so I am taking a stab in the dark here. Are you sure the modem is /dev/ttyS0? Does that model have any other serial ports? Does it have an IR port? On most laptops, the IR port, if enables, counts as a serial port. You can get an idea of how many serial ports the system thinks you have with:System: IBM ThinkPad X21 with Ultrabay
Operating system Mandrake 10.0
GUI: Gnome (also tried KDE)
Modem: Hawkins Serial Modem (Hayes compatible) The modem works perfectly on a serial port of a Sun UltraSpark Workstation running Aurora Linux (a version fo RedHat 7.3 ported to Sun)
Logical: /dev/modem points to /dev/ttyS0
COM1 port (ttyS0) - X21 Serial Port is Enabled in BIOS
Ultrabay: can locate and use diskette drive, mouse port, RW-CD drive, USB devices
Problem: Cannot detect the serial modem located on port ttyS0 on the Ultrabay, so I am unable to connect to my ISP. (Note: the internal modem is a Lucent Winmodem and so I prefer using the external modem)
Failures so far: 1. Gnome network device system tool - cannot activate modem on ttyS0 (also kppp with KDE) 2. Minicom - no response from ttyS0 3. wvdial - no response from ttyS0 4. pppd - no response from ttyS0 5. Shell commands - no response # echo atz > /dev/ttyS0 # echo atdt 6175551212 > /dev/ttyS0 6. ThinkPad diagnostic disk: everything OK 7. wvdialconfig - no modem detected
Help: can Linux be used to dial out on an external
modem located on a serial port of an Ultrabay
connected to a ThinkPad X21? If so, some simple
detailed instructions on how would be very, very much
appreciated.
cat /proc/ioports | grep serial
You can also try changing the port in minicom to try different ports. (You have to be root to do this, unfortunitly...)
Mikkel --
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