[quote="kn2user"]Kppp, after running pppconfig, gives me this error and than closes:

Opener: received OpenDevice
error opening modem device !
Opener: received RemoveLock


I know about lspci -v but I do not understand the output fully because I am new to linux. Like how can you find out what ttyS# is for the port.

I want an output that says something like this:
Linux has detected these ports:
ttyS0 no hardware
ttyS1 modem found

Is there a command like this?
eon, you sayed that my modem is ttyS3 or ttyS4 how did you find this? In windows, my modem is on com2, which should be ttyS1 in linux. Should windows and linux have the modem on the same port or will it be different?

I will try pon and minicom tommorrow since I have a paper to write today.

rrfish72, what does the command modconf do? I am new to linux so what do I have to do to add a module. What module should I add?[/quote
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I looked at one of my books, tried this on my system and it works "dmesg | grep ttyS*" Note the vertical line "|" is the "shifted/uppercase" symbol paired with the "\" the key and is located on a US keyboard above the enter key. and the astriek/star symbol is used, in linux as a wildcard.

You can also use this command to "see" serial ports "setserial -g /dev/ttyS*"

I guessed that your modem could be /dev/ttyS3 or 4 because AFAIK S0 & S1 are for external modems and they do correspond to com1 & com2 respectively.

Good luck !