Hi Jeff: Not a Winmodem... But external -yes. (USR Sporster Flash v.90) It now seems to work most of the time, but occasionally, when you send it the init string, it just doesnt send back "ok" so kppp just sits there. diald is no longer running, and I've looked at the bios to check the ports (mouse = irq4 modem =irq3 ) . I see in the faq a mention of speed of intialisation of the modem - tried adjusting the speed - no difference. I've also tried changing cr/lf, lf, cr as per the FAQ - all to no avail. I've tried all the different initialisation strings that have been suggested - as well as nothing but "ATZ", - all seem to work about the same! I've tried different /dev names - ttyS1, cua1, /dev/modem - all work the same. In minicom, an "ATZ" gets an "ok" everytime, but if I try to reset the modem with alt-z m, the string is echoed on the screen, but nothing else happens. I've also tried different speeds from 9600 up to 115000 (or whatever) - also no change. When it plays up, the only 'cure' is to power-down and reboot the > PC < (Resetting the modem has no effect) So I'm guessing its something to do with the serial port in the PC itself ....... I will try your suggestion about pnpdump - oh, and I have the OSS sound driver installed..... could there be any sort of conflict there I wonder?? When I tried to install a second sound-card, the driver gave some complaint about other PnP cards being present... Perhaps I must see if uninstalling the driver makes any difference. Having spent two days fiddling with the modem, and a day getting the Real Audio Player to partially work, I'm starting to be not >quite< so critical of WinNT/98 ! .... but on the other hand, SuSE 5.3 has yet to crash on me!!!! I intend to replace Redhat 5 with SuSE 5.3 on my two servers at work a.s.a.p. - but would dearly love to also replace NT on my desktop PC ! (I have enough grey hairs, thank-you!) -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Marold <havok@xihl.ni.net> To: suse-linux-e@suse.com <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Date: 26 November 1998 03:14 Subject: Re: [SuSE Linux] kppd - Modem USR Modem string?
Thanks for the quick reply. No luck, however. I don't get any "ok" response from the modem, so everything just hangs... Even powering-off
modem to reset it seems to have no effect.
When I went back into windows, I also seemed to have a problem until I reinstalled the modem. I wonder if this is some 'plug and pray'
the problem?
1) it sounds like this is an extenal modem - you're sure it's not a WINMODEM ? (winmodems will never work under linux)
2) assuming its PNP, have you run '/sbin/pnpdump > isapnp.conf' and does pnp dump detect the modem ?
3) have you checked to see if other running processes (e.g.diald) are locking the port (and the modem) ?
4) you sure minicom is connecting to the right port ?
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