Hello

Having bought a laptop and wanting to get online, I went out and bought a modem with a serial connection (US Robotics), because, according to what I could find on the lists, they work. Rather unfortunately though, the laptop (all laptops?) has no serial port. I had thought I could use the "printer port", forgetting that it is actually a parallel port. Hmm. 

So, have I made a big mistake, or can this modem be used somehow? (Maybe I just need a better cable that works two-way?)

When I did the " cu -p modem " check as per the User Guide I got a "Connected" (using tty01) but didn't get on very well with the syntax of the other commands (all those tildas, etc.)

When I try to connect with "pppd call <isp-chat>" I get an "alarm" and "script failed" message in the "tail -f /var/log/messages" output.

TIA for any help.

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Ja'far