This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to mime@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info. ---1463811584-784819757-1029920172=:979 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Darragh wrote: > Again nothing, I used the command setserial -a <cr> and You probably don't need setserial, unless you need to set up a serial port other than the the standard first 2 (ttyS0 and ttyS1, linux equivalent of com1 and com2). > I've being trying to decompress the rpm's for linuxconf but > I've had no luck, Good: linuxconf is poorly maintained junk, with security problems, and hard to follow menus, and is only included for backward compatibility in later RedHat versions. I have deleted it from my systems. > speakup method of reading the man pages is taking some getting > use to. Its pronouncing some words as broken words example > house is hou se. Its very distracting. To make things worse, > I cant use the up and down arrows to read the man pages as > speakup reads SS in front of every line, I've found from > experimentation that the E key will do the same thing without The man command uses the "less" pager by default, and the lowercase e key moves down a line at a time in that utility. Use the the h key from within "less" (better than "more") for help on other ways to move around (use "y" to move up a line): "less" uses vi editor conventions for movement where possible. > calling out the SS string. Also, I cant read in pico with the > arrow keys, I have to use the speakup navigation keys. that pico -- ugh. Many other choices: vi is widely used, and of course emacspeak uses -- emacs. > makes it nearly impossible to edit text and incert text into > certain parts of configuration files. I'll probably get use to > it but for the moment its frustrating. Back to the modem > though, this is getting on my nerves, I specifically asked for > a hardware modem when buying this computer to make it as easy Did I miss a message? I saw nothing to indicate you have a winmodem (which is not the same as having an internal modem). Have you tried minicom (a terminal emulator program) to see if you can talk directly to the modem with "AT" commands, and get an "OK" response? Now, concerning the previous messages concerning wvdial, and the RedHat ppp setup help page: There were a great many ways invented to set up ppp, probably still in some aging directory in the linux archives on ibiblio (formerly metalab), and it's many mirrors around the world (see /pub/Linux/system/network/serial/ppp/*): wvdial obsoleted many of these by making things easy for the average user in the most common situations. But as it's man page says, it doesn't cover every situation. If it doesn't work for you, you are probably better off using one of the old dated text based scripts, which may still work, even though not well maintained. Failing that, it may be easiest to configure by hand editing config files: the pppd documentation may help, though terse, but the PPP-HOWTO is probably your friend here (skip the first sections on the newer GUI config programs, and the sections on kernel compiling and the like -- RedHat has already done that stuff for you). You probably have installed the HOWTO package on your system, and can find it by doing something like: locate PPP-HOWTO Resulting in a path something like: /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO for the ascii version. or locate PPP-HOWTO.html returning something like: /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/other-formats/html/PPP-HOWTO.html The most recent HOWTOs are always on www.linuxdoc.org If you want to configure things with the Red Hat style network config files, see the initscripts package, (do: rpm -qd initscripts ) which should lead you to a terse file giving info on the textmode config files used in their GUI utilities: /usr/share/doc/initscripts-6.67/sysconfig.txt for RH7.3, and you can edit them by hand, as I do (easier and more flexible than the GUI -- which I can use, but dislike -- too limited). They are: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/chat-ppp0 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 (see attached examples) You may have to create the ifcfg file by copying and changing one of the other ifcfg files in that directory. Then you could use the Redhat utils to bring up and take down your ppp connection: /sbin/ifup ppp0 /sbin/ifdown ppp0 LCR -- L. C. Robinson reply to no_spam+munged_lcr@onewest.net.invalid People buy MicroShaft for compatibility, but get incompatibility and instability instead. This is award winning "innovation". 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