[ale] Problems with a modem.

[Mark Wright]

I just went round and round with a USR 56K modem until I decided to 
replace it.  I was trying to connect to Earthlink.  For some reason the 
USR modem would not pass the account authentication info correctly.  I 
dug up an old microcom 28.8 that worked fine.

But back to your problem, Why are you using minicom and not your 
disto's default dialer?  Mini com is great for manually making a 
connection or trouble shooting but you should have "pon" and "pof" 
scripts that will dial up your ISP with wvdial, pass your logon 
credentials and set up a PPP session.  KDE has a nice wizard to config 
this through the GUI.   What are you trying to talk to?  I noticed 
after my modem had reached the LCP timeout threshold it would drop the 
line but the dialer wvdial or chat would still act like it was 
connected.  I had to manually hang up the modem or it would stay 
"connected" all night.

This is a link to a great write up on dial up networking.

http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html


Mark


On Jan 4, 2005, at 4:07 PM, John Cole wrote:

> Howdy all!
>
> I'm delving into dial-up and modems and linux!  I've installed a more 
> recent
> version of Minicom than was on the server system before.
> (minicom-2.1-1-rh7.3.i386.rpm instead of minicom-1.83.1-8.i386.rpm)  I 
> have
> a USR 33.6 external modem connected to Com1 /dev/ttyS0.  When I turn 
> on the
> modem it has AA and CD lights already on and Minicom immediately 
> things I'm
> online.  I try having Minicom hangup and also +++ ATH0 but it doesn't 
> seem
> to do anything.  Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Btw, is there anything like the old "Modem Doctor" program for Linux 
> instead
> of DOS?
>
> Thanks,
> John Cole, TICSA
> FiLink
>
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