Fred A. Miller wrote:
> David Rankin wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Fred A. Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 2:35 PM
>>> To: opensuse
>>> Subject: [opensuse] USR5610C
>>>
>>> The USR5610C PCI modem arrived today, and I guess I should
>>> have known it wouldn't "fly" out of the box. :( Yast SEEMS to
>>> see it, but I get the
>>> error: "Unable to create the modem lock file" when trying to
>>> connect with KPPP. I did make myself a member of the "modem"
>>> group. Nothing I've tried works. Does anyone know of a fix?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Fred
>>>
>> Fred,
>>
>> I think it is the 'uucp' group. If that fails, try the 'sys' group.
>> My modem is /dev/ttyS1. Here is the way my serial ports are owned:
>>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/david # ll /dev/ttyS*
>> crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 64 2007-09-25 16:48 /dev/ttyS0
>> crw------- 1 uucp uucp 4, 65 2007-09-25 16:49 /dev/ttyS1
>> crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 66 2007-09-25 16:46 /dev/ttyS2
>> crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 67 2007-09-25 16:46 /dev/ttyS3
>> crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 68 2007-09-25 16:46 /dev/ttyS4
>> crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 69 2007-09-25 16:46 /dev/ttyS5
>> crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 70 2007-09-25 16:46 /dev/ttyS6
>> crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 71 2007-09-25 16:46 /dev/ttyS7
>>
>> Also, depending on the application I often create the link 'ln -s
>> /dev/ttyS1 /dev/modem' to help the older software out....
>
> There wasn't any /dev/modem file, however, adding the group listings DID
> solve the problem. Now, I get dialout, but ppp times out. There were 3
> files that KPPP couldn't open in /var/log so I manually created them.
> Now I don't get that complaint, but PPP still seems to time out. I'm at
> a loss what it needs at this point.....oh yes, I did set the "timeout"
> as 90 secs....didn't help.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Fred
>
For dial-out ppp, all I did was set up kinternet which is just KDE's
front end to wvdial. The dial-out ppp for me didn't require any
configuration other than setting the username, password, #ToDial. Surely
you do, but check and make sure you have wvdial and kinternet installed.
If it is a modem connection problem, it never hurts to have minicom
installed so you can open up an konsole interface to the modem and
check/set the default modem reset command string. For the USR modems the
'ati5' command will show all stored modem profiles and allow you to dig
further.
The reason I like kinternet also, is you have the option to display the
modem communication log right in front of you without having to 'tailf
somelogfile'.
(I always hate it when the other guys says "gee, it was simple" ;-)
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