Parul Mathur wrote on Thursday, October 18, 2001
I have a Motorola SM56 PCI Fax Modem (internal). I am
using the
driver
given in the PCQLinux 7.1 distro
(sm56-85.1-10.i386.rpm). I
have
checked that the modem is working properly.
I also have the same modem and same driver installed on SuSE 7.1.
It used to work great untill last week. Since last week or so,
I'm also getting the same message while connecting. My ISP is
Roltanet and I'm using wvdial for connecting to the net. I also
tried connecting using Kppp, but as expected it also detected
serial loopback. I also have the same question, what is serial
loopback? Some times, if i dial in as a root, then I used to get
connected, but since last couple of days, even that has also
stopped.
Btw, for allowing all the users on my home PC system, chmoded
/dev/modem to 777. Is this okay or is there some better
workaround? I did this becoz I read somewhere in our mail
archives that one shud not dial-up as root for the sake of
security reasons.
Thanks a lot in advance.
Warm regards,
Kinjal Sonpal