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. > > Please, no off-list mail. You will fall foul of my spam treatment. > Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at > http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >