Will not see modem

[1richard]

This is my first try with this distribution, and it will not see my external modem, it is an actiontec external modem, on Mandriva it recognized it, also I cannot find the kppp, when I click on add new program it dings and then nothing, please help me, thanks

[adelie]

Re: Will not see modem

The modem should be at /dev/ttyS[0-4] depending on where it is connected. As far as kppp you could run 'dpkg -l | grep kppp' to see if you have it installed. If not you can just run 'sudo apt-get install kppp' and that will install it for you.