| ***** charles 2005-06-05, 5:46 pm |
| "***** charles" <shultzjrX@joimail.com> wrote in message
news:In0oe.119$4u6.49@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> Hi all,
>
> Well I finally got online with my external modem so I could
> download the files needed for my Intel 536 install. I got
> through that ok but now after I disconnected my external
> modem and rebooted the computer and try to use my internal
> modem through "System - Administration - Networking"
> where I set the modem to /dev/modem I get the error:
> "Could not enable the interface ppp0" when I try to activate
> the internal modem. I think that I have to set a logical link
> between where the Intel modem is installed and the /dev/modem
> but I don't know the exact command to do that. If you have
> any other suggestions or know how to fix this please enlighten.
> It does lode the Intel module at boot time.
First I would like to thank all who replied in trying to help.
Well, I thought the "ln -s /dev/modem /dev/536ep0" command
would do the trick. Buurrr. got an error. I had looked in the
/dev directory for anything that looked like Intel and there it was:
536ep0. That's when I tried the ln command. Then I thought
that if I changed the /dev/modem in pppconfig to /dev/536ep0
that might work. It did!!! This was nowhere in the documentation.
Now I am on the Internet with the internal modem.
If I had ONE BIG RECOMMENDARION, please make the
installation of hardware and devices a little more of a no brainer
for beginners. If that doesn't happen, linux will never become
as universally acceptable as Windows(r).
thanks,
charles.....
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