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.
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Thanks again! Any other suggestions are greatfully appreciated!!!
MTIA
Bernd
Sounds like your ISP is using PAP or CHAP secrets. Every few seconds, it asks for the PWD/USERNAME again. If it doesn't get it, the ISP hangs up. Are you using Kinternet to dial in? If not, you need to... 1) Findout which one your ISP is using? 2) Edit pap/chap-secrets as appropiate, they are in /etc/ppp. You can setup both, and then it doesn't matter, ppp will use the appropiate one. I had this EXACT problem before I set up the files. -Daniel