[lazarus] Can someone help me install a modem on my linux box!

Michael Anthon mca at tams.com.au
Sun Jul 11 21:16:07 EDT 1999


Eh?  It's pretty important to at least know what serial port to use !!

Try the following...
setserial /dev/ttyS0
setserial /dev/ttyS1
setserial /dev/ttyS2
setserial /dev/ttyS3

This will tell you what serial ports are installed on your machine.

See if you have a program called minicom installed.  This is just a nice
simple serial terminal program.  Run it and set the serial device to each of
your installed devices until you find the modem.

Running modemtool will simply create a link from one of those devices to
/dev/modem... this is not REALLY necessary but can make later setup a bit
cleaner.

Now run whatever ppp configuration program you are using and set the modem
device to /dev/modem if you used modemtool, or just /dev/ttySn, where n is
the device you identified.

HTH
Michael Anthon
(Yes, yet another Michael !)

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Vreman [mailto:pfvreman at wins.uva.nl]
Sent: Saturday, 10 July 1999 6:27
To: lazarus at miraclec.com
Subject: Re: [lazarus] Can someone help me install a modem on my linux
box!


At 06:46 10-7-99 , you wrote:
>I have a modem I want to add to this box (running Mandrake).  How do I do
>it?  I plugged it in and turned it on, ran modemtool but I don't know what
>OCM port it's on.  I selected each COM port in turn and ran KPPP to dial
>with no success.  What am I missing?
>
>I need to install it here at home because when I do a CVS update using
>wincvs, all the makefiles are screwed up because it transfers them in
binary
>and adds spaces.
Normally you don't need to configure the modem for ppp usage. There are 
some pppconfig tools outside which do it for you. If not in the distro 
search for it at freshmeat.net. I don't run RH (or mandrake) so i don't 
know where the config files are located




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