Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2234 mails)

[bobbyg@xxxxxxxxxx (Bobby Geortgilakis)]

Hi all & Ramin Sina ,

who wrote:

<snip>

> Hi all,
>
> I posted the following message on the newsgroups but didn't get any
> helpful hints. I was told there may be a reference to the modem in
> /var/lock, but I couldn't find any. I will appreciate your suggestions. I
> have SuSE 6.1 and internal US Robatics V90 56K modem.
>
> Ramin
>
> Hi all, I had a crash a few days ago and since then I can not get
> connected. Now when I start wudial, it tells me that /dev/ttyS3 (which
> has always been my modem device) is busy. If I start the ezppp in the
> debug mode, it tells me there is no dial tone.  The modem starts to do
> something, but it will not make the dialing  sound. When I pick up the
> phone, there IS a dial tone. Considering that the phone line goes from
> jack to modem and then from modem to phone, I am not sure that my modem
> is really dead. But I don't know anything about hardware. Does this sound
> like a hardware problem or could it be a software problem? If the latter,
> how can I fix it?
>
> Many thanks,
> Ramin Sina

<snip>

Yep, modems can be a major PIA.

Given that you have set up a dual-boot machine, double check in CrashXX, to
make sure where the modem is really and then re-check this to your "wudial,"
settings.

Or, try out the same setting on kppp, I find is a rather stable wee proggy.

But if that does not work, my praise of kppp, may start a flame war, which
will cause others to come out of cyber space & give you some other tips,
about dial-up software they use.....   ;-)

Hope some of this helps.

I say again, modems can be a PIA.

*BFN*

Greek Geek.

The birds are singing, the flowers are budding, and it is time for Miss
Manners to tell young lovers to stop necking in public.

It's not that Miss Manners is immune to romance.  Miss Manners has been
known to squeeze a gentleman's arm while being helped over a curb, and,
in her wild youth, even to press a dainty slipper against a foot or two
under the dinner table.  Miss Manners also believes that the sight of
people strolling hand in hand or arm in arm or arm in hand dresses up a
city considerably more than the more familiar sight of people shaking
umbrellas at one another.  What Miss Manners objects to is the kind of
activity that frightens the horses on the street ...

(well it is so, in the Southern Hemisphere, viz spring.)


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