Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3470 mails)

[Bruce Marshall <bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 15 September 2003 13:22 pm, Bernd wrote:
> On Sunday, 14 September, 2003 17:17, Lincoln Ramsay wrote:
> <snip>
>
> > If your modem is a top-of-the-line one, I would expect it to have no
> > problems. I'd guess Windows does stuff with the modem to prevent the
> > disconnection, perhaps it keeps the line busy with null/echo packets
> > or something. Try unplugging your phones though as that worked for
> > me.
>
> Thanks, but...
>
> Removed the phones, rewired the phone lines, changed pci slots,
> changed IRQ's in BIOS so the modem would be on its' own IRQ, pinged,
> echoed, set idle time to indefinite, removed idle time, changed AT
> commands to match those in windoze exactly, added additional AT
> commands to allow flex in line noise, verified windoze com port is
> same as linux ttyS (com5=ttyS4), on and on and on..................
>
> It is sooo scary to me that my modem (USR PCI 56K FaxModem Model 5610
> (rev 01)), which is fully supported in SuSE, works in windoze, yet I
> get a (SIGHUP) and get dumped in linux.
>
> <snip>
>
> Thanks again!  Any other suggestions are greatfully appreciated!!!
>

Coming in late to this thread but I once had a similar problem with a 
particular ISP.  All others worked fine.

The problem was solved by choosing a particular set of options for pppd.  
(I call pppd directly to make a connection)

Not sure I could even dig up the changes needed (I haven't used that ISP 
in at least 4 yrs).  Can you try to connect to another ISP for 
comparison?






> MTIA
>
> Bernd
> --
> "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather
> wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them
> to yearn for the vast and endless sea."
>
> Antoine de St. Exupery

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+ Bruce S. Marshall  bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx  Bellaire, MI         09/15/03 
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