no luck yet...still Re:debian/woody powerpc + modem

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 10:51:13PM -0400, Max Blanco wrote:
> 
> Thanks Lennart(All)... but no luck yet.  see below:
> 
> On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 05:24:17PM -0400, Max Blanco wrote:
> > > Maybe I should, but I haven't any use for ppp.
> > 
> > Ah.  OK.
> > 
> 
> pppconfig gave me "set modem manually" as the only option.
> 8(
> 
> > Well I would imagine that Linux uses /dev/ttyS0 - ttyS3 for serial
> > ports.  What does 'dmesg |grep tty' show you?
> > 
> 
> bingo:
> tty00 at somehex1 (irq = 15) is a Z8530 ESCC; port = modem
> tty01 at somehex2 (irq = 16) is a Z8530 ESCC; port = printer
> 
> tried tty00 and tty01.  no luck.
> so I wrote a simple script that tried ttyS* tty0* cua* to no avail.
> 
> the modem is on.
> the modem is plugged in to the line.
> the modem works well in macos.

Perhaps using some setserial command to setup /dev/ttyS0 on the hex and
irq given would work.  Don't usually bother specifying the uart or
anything like that.

Might work.

/usr/share/doc/setserial/ might have useful hints in it.

Lennart Sorensen
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