On Wednesday 31 August 2005 17:21, SOTL wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I am sort of in a pickle of how to do this.
>
> If you will recall I have two computers that have the same modem in them,
> one of which will dial out and one which will not dial out. The one that
> will not dial out had a system crash and then was used on a network system
> for a while and with one monitor and two computers I have been slow in
> working on. Anyway the issue with the modem is that the system is not
> configured for the modem. Both are US Robotics 56k v2 PCI. Well to simplify
> things I finally started working on this issue again. So, I checked the
> driver being used for the functioning computer to be ttyS1. Now my idea was
> to simply copy ttyS0 and ttyS1 from one computer into the other and see if
> that solved the problem.
>
> How does one do this? That is copy ttyS0 or ttyS1 to another computer.
> I have done the following copied ttyS0 and ttyS1 from dev/ttyS0 and dev/S1
> to /home/trunk/ttySo and /home/trunk/ttyS1 so I can not mess up system
> files. I have changed permission on both files to all.
> As root using MC I have tried to copy both files to My_Document of the MS
> side of this dual box and received error: Operation Not Permitted (1). I
> then tried command line and received the same error.
> I tried e-mailing the files out and received similar errors.
> I tried copying the files to a floppy. Files show as being copied to floppy
> but two other computers say files were not coppied. I then inserted blank
> floppie in, mounted and same files were shown to exist on blank floppie.
> I have tried CD burner but burner does not recognize existance of files.
> I have not tried dd ing files as I am not familiar with that command, I do
> have procedure for dd ing written down but from attempts to read floppie
> from command line and showing existance of files on blank floppie suspect
> that this will not be fruitful.
>
> Also, floppies being used are formated as fat32 same as file system for MS
> side which is also formated as fat32 but this should not my attempting to
> transfer by e-mail attachment.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions.
>
> Thanks
> Frank
>
Which distro are you using?
Which dialer are you using?
I have just gone thru getting dial-up internet going for my brotherinlaw with
SUSE 9.3 Pro and a US Robotics Sportster external modem with the Kinternet
Dialer interface. I also got it to work with KPPP, but only in root mode.
Google search "Dial-up Linux" results were usefull.
Richard Smoot
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