[ale] Re: ppp dialup script / need working dialup

[Mark Wright]

Hi Dave,

I think your advice was right on but I could not get that command sent 
to the modem during init.  Every time I included it in the init string 
the modem failed to dial.  So I got desperate and dug around in the 
basement till I found a Microcom 28.8 modem.  I swapped it out and 
guess what?  It works!  Slow as molasses but it works!

Dow, I imagine you had me on the right track too.  The US Robotics 
modem was not connecting right and my authorization was never 
occurring.  I did not have the data to see that the US Robotics and 
whatever Earthlink has were just not getting along.

I'll post a solution to the other email thread so it will be easy to 
follow for anyone needing a solution like this from the archives.

Thanks to all again for the help,

Merry Christmas!

Mark

On Dec 25, 2004, at 6:23 PM, deritchie at earthlink.net wrote:

>
> Assuming that this a Sportster, try connecting to the port and sending 
> an AT&B1 to fix the DTE
> speed on the RS-232 port.
>
> -- Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Wright <mpwright at speedfactory.net>
> Sent: Dec 23, 2004 6:13 PM
> To: deritchie at earthlink.net
> Subject: Re: ppp dialup script
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> The modem is a US Robotics 56K faxmodem.  I have two of them and have
> swapped them around with no differing results.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>
>
> On Dec 23, 2004, at 4:54 PM, deritchie at earthlink.net wrote:
>
>> Mark,
>>
>>    one other thing.. what kind of modem are you using to make this
>> connection to your ISP? If I can
>> see a manual I can look to see what is on line... but this definitely
>> looks like a speed mismatch problem -
>> the characters after the chat are probably 'login:" as some strange
>> speed.....
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Dave Ritchie
>> 770-303-6776 w
>> 404-483-0762 c
>> 770-565-5297 h
>>
>> deritchie@(earthlink.net|yahoo.com)
>>
>
>
>