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Hi,

recently I updated my system (from suse 5.2 to suse 6.1). On my old
system ppp worked just fine. I had chat scripts and options in
/etc/ppp. Now I wanted to use wvdial. But I could not configure it:

wvdialconf:
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Scanning your serial ports for a modem.

Port Scan<*1>: S0   S1   S2   S3   S4   S5   S6   S7  
Port Scan<*1>: S8   S9   S10  S11  S12  S13  S14  S15  
Port Scan<*1>: S16  S17  S18  S19  S20  S21  S22  S23  

Sorry, no modem was detected! Is it in use by another program?
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So I copied the old /etc/ppp stuff to my new system. But when
I call my chat script this script returns immediatly without
any error message.

Can anybody help me?

My system looks like this:

- I have a multiport card (unfortunatly I don't know
  vendor and name); at the parallel port of that card
  I have a Iomega ZIP drive
- the modem is at the serial port of the main board
- a printer is the parallel port of the main board

I don't think my problem has something to do with wrong
IO addresses or IRQs because the multiport card (old) is
configured with jumpers and works without problems with my
old linux system and windows 95. The modem is at COM2 (i.e.
/dev/ttyS1, IRQ3, IO 0x2F8 - 0x2FF).

The output of dmesg looks like this:

-----------------------------------------------------------------

(egcs-1.1.2 release)) #2 Fri Oct 22 02:32:03 MEST 1999
....
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
Initializing RT netlink socket
....
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
....
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,ECP,ECPEPP,ECPPS2]
parport1: PC-style at 0x278 [SPP]
parport0: Printer, HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 670C
parport1: no IEEE-1284 device present.
....
Serial driver version 4.27 with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
PPP: version 2.3.3 (demand dialling)
PPP line discipline registered.
....
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I really don't know what to try next. I already read the
PPP-/Serial-/Modem-Howto. But (with my limited experience and knowledge) I
could not figure out what I can do to fix that problem.

Every hint is VERY much appreciated.

Thanks,

Jan

So your box worked with an earlier version, hmm?
Chances:
1. PPP is convenient but to test for a proper recognition of your modem,
first test with the fine
'minicom' program. With this you will know whether you can use your
modem with your new installation.
It is pretty easy to set it up (info should be available through the
SuSE handbook).
2. wvdial gave you a clue already:
'Is it in use by another program?'
There are several programs (uucp, fax programs, etc) that could lock up
your modem.
To verify check for a LCK... file (after the dots there should be the
device name of your modem) in a subdirectory of /var (cannot remember
the right one).
If this exists there _is_ another process that locks your modem. Try to
find it with 'top' or 'ps'
3. Did you have a symbolic link from your modem device to /dev/modem?
(/dev/modem never exists by default)
4. Permissions. Could it be you have no r/w permissions for the device?

Got an idea?
Much luck Martin.

P.S. I am _not_ a guru!
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