Re: [Sheflug] Re:the newbie is back

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 08:28:37PM -0700, Pete Smith wrote:
> of disk one from some kind person. So thing is the only version I have to
> hand is a freebie of corel linux which went in like a rat up a drainpipe

	Is this a good or a bad thing? X-)

> does'nt seem to like my mouse though sometimes recognised sometimes not.

	When I had corel installed, I experienced the same problems.
Apparently, it builds a new XF86Config file every time you boot up.
Checks everything, but for one little thing: whenever you shut the
computer down, it gets rid of most of the symlinks in /dev. For some
reason, it fails to regenerate the symlynk to /dev/mouse. I don't know
whether it's been fixed, but well.... IT'S A MAJOR BLUNDER!!! Anyway,
not a very important thing, and probably fixed in the corel linux
website, I would have thought.

> OK to my problem all seems well except modem connection setting up "dial up"
> I have played with the settings until when I connect I get the modem dialing
> out "connect"/speed. "starting pppd" then I get an error message "ppp daemon
> died unexpectedly" when I check the log I get the very helpful message
> "sorry can't help you there"

	We'll assume the "logical side" is fine (isp's number, dns et
al). Corel usually gets this bit right IMO :)

> If it makes any difference I have 2 modems one internal winmodem on com port
> 3 & an externel motorola 28.8 on com port 2. This is the one I have setup in
> Linux on dev/tty1/ would there being one on port 3 make any problems.

	It could definitely be that. How did you set it up? You should
have used something along the lines of setserial /dev/ttySX port $PORT
irq $IRQ ..., where the $PORT and $IRQ and the values you have set your
external modem to be. A good way to test this is to use minicom. Once
you fire it up, you wil get some line of cryptic commands with an AT at
the beggining, and then an OK if the modem is properly configured. Have
a look at setserial and at /proc/interrupts /proc/ioports, as some
IRQs/ports your modem likes might be used by something else.

	Best luck!
	José
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José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
					Radar & Communications Group
					Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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