The Device tab
Here you can select and configure your modem.
Choose the device appropriate for your hardware.
/dev/ttys0
DOS or Windows® users will know this as COM1, while COM2 is
/dev/ttys1
and so on. These devices are
the ones normally used on Linux® systems.
/dev/cua0
The first serial line (COM1). COM2 is usually
/dev/cua1
and so on. These devices are commonly used on
BSD systems, namely FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. Older Linux® systems may also
have these, although on Linux® they were renamed some time ago to /dev/ttyS
.x
/dev/ttyI0
On Linux® these belong to internal ISDN cards. These
devices emulate a common Hayes compatible modem.
/dev/ttyI0
is for the first,
/dev/ttyI1
is for the second
ISDN card and so on. These devices are only available in the
Linux® version.
/dev/modem
Many Linux® distributions make a symbolic link from the real modem device
to /dev/modem
. You should avoid
using this one.. Use the real device that it is pointing to
instead.
Select from Hardware (CRTSCTS), Software (XON/XOFF) and no flow control. The recommended setting is Hardware flow control.
Choose the correct “Enter” character sequence for your modem. Most modems will use “CR/LF”, however some modems need a different setting. If you experience trouble while running a login script, play with this parameter.
Choose from the list of connection speeds supported by your serial port. Note that the serial port supports much higher speeds than your modem in most cases. You should probably start with the highest number available, and only reduce it if you have connection problems.
Activate this option if you want KPPP to create a lockfile. Under
Linux® the folder for such a file will be /var/lock
. Programs such as
mgetty depend on the existence of such lock files,
and KPPP will not work with mgetty if the lock file
is not set. Make sure that you don't use the option lock
for
pppd if you want KPPP to lock the modem, since the
pppd option lock
will induce
pppd to try to lock the modem device. Since KPPP
will have already locked the device, pppd will fail,
and KPPP will display the error pppd died
unexpectedly.
This is the time in seconds that KPPP will wait for the CONNECT response from your modem. A setting of about 30 seconds should be sufficient for most purposes.
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