my modem is a practical/hayes 5676US on com3 under win98. when I first configured, the auto detect did not find it. I forced my ppp to /dev/ttyS2 and WvDial reports "cannot open /dev/ttyS2" ls of /dev/ttyS* shows the device special file is there
Please verify that your modem is actually being configured to this I/O port and IRQ usually associated with /dev/ttyS2 (0x2e8, 3). You can check this by running setserial -v /dev/ttyS2 as root. If it prints that the UART type is unknown, your modem is PnP and you'll need to configure it using isapnptools (or by configuring your BIOS to boot with a non-PnP OS, if it supports that option) before either Linux or rp3 can make any use of it.
Aaargh. Just now noticed that email attached to this bug ID. The next thing to check is that either your ISP is including DNS information from its PPP server, or that their tech support people have given you a list of DNS servers. If you have a list of DNS server addresses, they can be entered in the "Advanced" tab of the dialog box that pops up when you hit "Edit..." in the main configuration dialog box.
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