Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> William J.Hudspeth <wjhud@jps.net> writes:
> > I have been trying to set up my actiontec modem for ppp connections
> > and cannot find a command that will set proper parameters.


> Unlike linux, the information from "setserial" isn't needed at all --
> your kernel figures out for you what port the serial controller is on
> without any help from the user, and the irq and such as well. In other
> words, you don't need to do any of this. :)

Except that this time it failed in some manner I don't understand and I
do need to do something, as you suggest here:

> What you can do, just to verify that there is no problem, is do a
> "dmesg | egrep ^com" to verify that the serial port is in fact
> configured properly.

'dmesg' provided reasonable looking value for com0 and com1. Where are
these values stored and what programs read the values? Where is the
linkage broken? If I knew I would fix it.


> In a more abstract sense, you might want to learn how to build kernel
> config files for kernel customization, which can impact how things
> like indirect bus probes work, but I don't think you need to know
> about that to get ppp working.

Where is the information I need for PPP?  Then, where is the information
about the abstract kernel customization?

I certainly see the value in your suggestions. Since I am new to UNIX,
nothing is obvious.

I really appreciate your thoughts.

Bill
 

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