On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 23:10 +1000, Graham Smith wrote:
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 11:07:30AM -0500, Regis Matejcik wrote:
Everything seems to work fine on this new install of SuSE professional 9.2 - except....
Dial up will not work. I installed a specifically linux compatible modem. It shows up as configured in Yast, and the Kinternet icon is in the system tray.
When I click the icon it momentarily shows a little connecting graphic then returns to normal. The log output shows:
Status is: disconnected trying to connect to smpppd connect to smppd Status is: disconnected Status is: connecting Status is: disconnected pppd[0] died: pppd options error (exit code 2)
I have setup a number of dial-up internet connections for my friends. There can be problems with the modem connecting to the ISP at a too high baud rate and then disconnecting immediately.
A better explanation is that when the modem negotiates a baud rate with the ISP it does a test to see what is the highest baud rate it can connect at. Depending on the modem and the line quality the negotiated result may be too high for the link to be maintained and promply disconnects.
To see if this is your problem, try setting the line modulation to a lower speed and retry connecting. ATF is one command but AT+MS is the best to use.
AT+MS=<mod>,<automode>, <min-rate>, <max-rate>
e.g to restrict the maximum carrier speed 48000 bit/s use the following AT+MS=56,1,300,48000
To see what the modem is set to use AT+MS?
I suggest you find out what speed the modem is trying to connect at and drop the speed down by 2000 using the above command and keep dropping the speed until you establish the upper limit which your modem will connect properly at.
Good Luck! -- Regards,
Graham Smith
Grahm, Thanks for the suggestion. At this point though, it doesn't seem that the modem is even dialing. It doesn't seem to respond at all. I think that the drivers are possibly incorrect. Reading the readme file for the modem drivers indicates that they're for a 2.4 kernel. I searched for an updated driver (slmdm-2.7 is the packaged driver), even found one written specifically for SuSE - but unfortunately 9.0. Could you possibly suggest a modem / driver combo known to work with SuSE 9.2? Thanks, Regis Matejcik