Re: setting a specific peer name

[barsalou <barjunk attglobal net>]

Quoting Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>:

> On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 23:11 -0800, barsalou wrote:
> > Quoting Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>:
> >
> > >> The command is 'pppd call mypeername'.....wanted to know if the gui
> > >> tool could/would replicate that behavior.
> > >
> > > That command appears to only tell pppd to read options
> > > from /etc/ppp/peers/<name>.
> > >
> > >> Either that, or how/where do I change all the options for the
> > >> connection.  It has most of it right, but there are a few items off.
> > >
> > > You can change many of the options from the connection editor,
> > > nm-connection-editor, in the PPP tab for that connection.
> >
> > One of the options that cannot be set is the tty device...when
> > connecting a Mercury USBConnect device, it tries to use ttyS3 and it
> > should be S4....so using the 'call' option works because I have
> > specific ability to change that option.
>
> The port that should be used is determined automatically by
> NetworkManager or ModemManager.  So if there's something wrong with
> that, we need to fix NM.  You should never ever have to specify the port
> yourself.  What version of NM?
>
> You probably mean ttyUSB3/ttyUSB4 too, right?

Version 0.7.0.100.

I'm using xubuntu 9.04.

I did in fact meant ttyUSB3/ttyUSB4....thanks for catching that.

Mike B.

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