Re: Connecting to the Internet ; editing LIO; setting up the sound card

["Darragh" <darraghoheiligh eircom net>]

Ah, sorry about that, its an internal

Darragh
----- Original Message -----
From: "John" <valhalla computerdatasafe com au>
To: <blinux-list redhat com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 8:29 AM
Subject: Re: Connecting to the Internet ; editing LIO; setting up the sound
card


>
> In a sense the ampersand disconnects the program from your terminal so it
can
> run in the background while you do other things. The advice to type the
> ampersand was not useful. What you see is just the way bash works.
>
> I've been using Linux for some years, and been using it for dialup since
Red
> Hat 4.2. I've never needed to use setserial.
>
> What I would like to see is the output of wvdialconf, but what it writes
to
> the screen and the configuration file it creates.
>
> You can capture the screen output like this:
> wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf >wvdialreport 2>&1
>
> Before you do that, though, check whether the modem is plugged in to power
and
> the computer and that it is turned on.
>
> btw, you said you have "a 56K hardware modem." You did not say whether
it's
> internal or external. My instructions above assume external.
>
> On Tuesday 20 August 2002 15:09, Darragh wrote:
> > Hello again,
> > I've tried all the suggestions with no success.  It keeps telling me
that a
> > modem cant be found and I should check the setserial configuration.
I've
> > briefly read the man pages for set serial and as far as I can tell these
> > options are set at boot up.  I don't yet have the knowledge to start
editing
> > it my self.  One further thing, when I type wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf
&
> > create I get the same error message but no command prompt.  I've waited
for
> > up to twenty minutes with no luck.  I can get the command prompt back by
> > pressing return but I get a message saying [1]+ EXIT 1
/etc/wvdial.conf
> > Does any one know what this means?
>
>
>
> --
>
>
> Cheers
> John.
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