Re: [MiNT] Hades MiNT-Net problems

[joska@nuts.edu (Jo Even Skarstein)]

On Sun, 10 Oct 1999 11:52:00 +0300, Martin-Eric Racine wrote:

> > I solved the problem in creating a symbolic link from modem2
> > to ttyb.
>
> pppd and chat expect to deal with a tty instead of a device name.
> Strange but true.  No idea why.  Frank tried explaining twice...

This is definitely not true. I still use /dev/modem2 with pppd 2.2.0f,
and I don't have any problems at all.

> In my MINT.CNF, I have those symlinks:
>
> sln u:\dev\modem1    u:\dev\ttya
> sln u:\dev\modem2    u:\dev\ttyb
> sln u:\dev\serial1   u:\dev\ttyc
> sln u:\dev\serial2   u:\dev\ttyd
> sln u:\dev\midi      u:\dev\ttye

The only symlink I have is a link from /dev/modem2 to /dev/pilot, since
pilotlink expects the latter.

> > Connect access to modem2 at full speed (115K) everytime I
> > launch them... only pppd and chat are unable to. WHYYYY?
>
> 1) You need a kernel 1.14.3 or better that supports 115k baud.
> 2) You need a patched pppd also (2.2.0f by Howard Chu is good).
> 3) You need the above symlinks in your MINT.CNF.

(1) and (2) is correct, (3) not. If he indeed have a recent kernel and a
patched pppd (which he obviously have, since he tried all of them...) I can
only assume that there's a problem with serial-support on his Hades.

Hey, wait a minute here... He said that I-Connect and Connect works fine,
right? My guess is that he's running HS-Modem *after* MiNT, which is
understandable if he's the kind of person who actually reads documentation ;-)
Remi, check this and be sure that HS-Modem runs before MiNT.


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