I need help getting my hardware PCI modem working
This is my first post to this board and I am a complete NEWBIE to Linux. I have recently installed Debian GNu/Linux on my HP Pavilion 511n. I have a dual boot with Windows XP. I also added a U.S. Robitics Hardware PCI modem. Windows sees the modem and work perfectly with it (that's what i am using now) but Linux won't connect with it. I tried using wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf but it doesn't reconize it. When I type cat /proc/pci it sees it and notices that it is a U.S. Robitics 56k Modem and it says that the irq is 11 and the I/O address is 0xd800 but where do I go from here. I have tried to figure it out for the past four or five days without success. Any help will be strongly appreciated. I just want to be able to connect to the internet under Linux.
-Adam Colwell :newbie: |
have you loaded the appropriate module(s)? ppp is needed in kernel to get the modem working :)
EDIT: do a quick module-search, unless you know you've compiled the correct ppp's in kernel... Code:
modprobe -l | grep ppp Code:
modprobe -l | less Code:
modprobe (modulename) if you have pppconfig, make an account with it and start the ppp through it :) like this: Code:
pppconfig Code:
pon (connectionname) EDIT2: if you don't have some module or something else is missing, you can see it like this: you said your pci-proc shows your modem's information. so the device is there..but what about the device file? do Code:
ls /dev/ttyS* |
Hey thanks. Acctually I figured it out about 5 minutes after i submitted that message. And when I type in pon I hear the modem making the usual noises. And if I type wvdial then I see it dialing and it says connected but never goes back to the command prompt. But I have a new question now, after I connect it and then go back into the GUI and I open up mozilla or another browser it doesn't connect. Is there something else I need to do? Also root is the only one that can use the modem, it says permission deniad. Help please :D :study:
-Adam Colwell :newbie: |
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