Re: [opensuse] Installing 56k Modem in Suse10.1
* jim tate <mickeyboa@sbcglobal.net> [08-19-06 22:31]:
Yast from what I can usee reconized modem and showed it at ttyS1, and it allowed me to configure settings and saved. What app. do I use after Yast has save settings, to start dialup. I setup and ran kppp and it said it was "Unable to open modem" , It also indicated that it " Unable to create modem lockfile", but I unchecked a box in kppp that said "lock file" and elimnated lock file error message. I also setup port ttyS1 in Kppp as modem port. I also fed it the command as SU: /usr/sbin/rcsetserial start /dev/modem /dev/ttyS1 irq 169 baud_base 115200 port 0xdc00 uart 16550A Below is the latest lspci for the modem. Where do I go from here?
I have been away from dial-up for several years and memory fails. I seem to recall prefering /usr/bin/wvdial for connections and minicom for tests. Perhaps someone here using dial-up can help. I do remember that when I first used dial-up on linux with MarmaDuke (??) 5.5 that I had no problems connecting, but I had an external serial port USRobotics. The above is slightly inaccurate. I did connect with linux (Slackware) which had to have the kernel compiled to install. I believe that it was prior to 1.0, something like 15 floppy disks downloaded over 1200 baud dial-up (or was it 600). Dos days before windoz. That 1200 baud modem was _fast_ compared to the accoustic connect 150 baud first modem on a C-64 running cp/m.
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Patrick Shanahan wrote: [pruned]
I do remember that when I first used dial-up on linux with MarmaDuke (??) 5.5 that I had no problems connecting, but I had an external serial port USRobotics.
The above is slightly inaccurate. I did connect with linux (Slackware) which had to have the kernel compiled to install. I believe that it was prior to 1.0, something like 15 floppy disks downloaded over 1200 baud dial-up (or was it 600). Dos days before windoz.
That 1200 baud modem was _fast_ compared to the accoustic connect 150 baud first modem on a C-64 running cp/m.
I shall never forget the day I introduced the 1200 baud modem (~1968) on the BBS I was running and one of the users complained BITTERLY that it should be removed immediately because he could not keep up when reading the text as it appeared on the screen! :-) The good ol' days.... Cheers. -- This computer is environment-friendly and is running on OpenSuSE 10.1
Sun, 20 Aug 2006, by blchupin@tpg.com.au:
Patrick Shanahan wrote: [pruned]
I do remember that when I first used dial-up on linux with MarmaDuke (??) 5.5 that I had no problems connecting, but I had an external serial port USRobotics.
The above is slightly inaccurate. I did connect with linux (Slackware) which had to have the kernel compiled to install. I believe that it was prior to 1.0, something like 15 floppy disks downloaded over 1200 baud dial-up (or was it 600). Dos days before windoz.
That 1200 baud modem was _fast_ compared to the accoustic connect 150 baud first modem on a C-64 running cp/m.
I shall never forget the day I introduced the 1200 baud modem (~1968) on ^^^^^^ ITYM 1986.. In '68 there weren't even modems around yet afaik, only TELEX and Telegraphy. The computers in those days were al in hands of large coorporations, and all worked on either dedicated tasks or with batched processing of punch cards or paper-tape. If they even had a terminal it was a teletype kind of console, just for the demi-god Operator, no-one else.
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Theo v. Werkhoven wrote: ^^^^^^
ITYM 1986.. In '68 there weren't even modems around yet afaik, only TELEX and Telegraphy. The computers in those days were al in hands of large coorporations, and all worked on either dedicated tasks or with batched processing of punch cards or paper-tape. If they even had a terminal it was a teletype kind of console, just for the demi-god Operator, no-one else.
There were modems in 1968, though they tended to be proprietary, expensive and scarce. I started working in the telecom industry in 1972 and there were certainly 2400 bps modems available then. Also, the industry used devices called "voice frequency carrier telegrahpy" for decades, which were essentially a bank of modems, each tuned to different frequencies that allowed several teletype circuits to be carried over a single voice circuit. Some of the ones I used to work with, were so old they were built with vacuum tubes! The VFCT systems were also available in a single channel configuration, which would be comparable to a "modem". The use of tones to multiplex data channels, goes back to A.G. Bell and predates his telephone work.
Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
Sun, 20 Aug 2006, by blchupin@tpg.com.au:
Patrick Shanahan wrote: [pruned]
I do remember that when I first used dial-up on linux with MarmaDuke (??) 5.5 that I had no problems connecting, but I had an external serial port USRobotics.
The above is slightly inaccurate. I did connect with linux (Slackware) which had to have the kernel compiled to install. I believe that it was prior to 1.0, something like 15 floppy disks downloaded over 1200 baud dial-up (or was it 600). Dos days before windoz.
That 1200 baud modem was _fast_ compared to the accoustic connect 150 baud first modem on a C-64 running cp/m. I shall never forget the day I introduced the 1200 baud modem (~1968) on ^^^^^^ ITYM 1986.. In '68 there weren't even modems around yet afaik, only TELEX and Telegraphy. The computers in those days were al in hands of large coorporations, and all worked on either dedicated tasks or with batched processing of punch cards or paper-tape. If they even had a terminal it was a teletype kind of console, just for the demi-god Operator, no-one else.
Oh dear :-) , of course that should have read ~1986. In fact I think it was 1987 or even 1988. Thanks for picking this up. Cheers. -- This computer is environment-friendly and is running on OpenSuSE 10.1
Basil Chupin wrote:
Patrick Shanahan wrote: [pruned]
I do remember that when I first used dial-up on linux with MarmaDuke (??) 5.5 that I had no problems connecting, but I had an external serial port USRobotics.
The above is slightly inaccurate. I did connect with linux (Slackware) which had to have the kernel compiled to install. I believe that it was prior to 1.0, something like 15 floppy disks downloaded over 1200 baud dial-up (or was it 600). Dos days before windoz.
That 1200 baud modem was _fast_ compared to the accoustic connect 150 baud first modem on a C-64 running cp/m.
I shall never forget the day I introduced the 1200 baud modem (~1968) on the BBS I was running and one of the users complained BITTERLY that it should be removed immediately because he could not keep up when reading the text as it appeared on the screen! :-)
The good ol' days....
A BBS in 1968???? That was about 7 years before personal computers started to become popular and well before modems were readily available.
James Knott wrote:
Basil Chupin wrote:
Patrick Shanahan wrote: [pruned]
I do remember that when I first used dial-up on linux with MarmaDuke (??) 5.5 that I had no problems connecting, but I had an external serial port USRobotics.
The above is slightly inaccurate. I did connect with linux (Slackware) which had to have the kernel compiled to install. I believe that it was prior to 1.0, something like 15 floppy disks downloaded over 1200 baud dial-up (or was it 600). Dos days before windoz.
That 1200 baud modem was _fast_ compared to the accoustic connect 150 baud first modem on a C-64 running cp/m. I shall never forget the day I introduced the 1200 baud modem (~1968) on the BBS I was running and one of the users complained BITTERLY that it should be removed immediately because he could not keep up when reading the text as it appeared on the screen! :-)
The good ol' days....
A BBS in 1968???? That was about 7 years before personal computers started to become popular and well before modems were readily available.
Yes, yes, yes :-) . Me culpa. Should have read ~1986. (I won't be able to sleep tonight because of this faux pas :-) .) Cheers. -- This computer is environment-friendly and is running on OpenSuSE 10.1
On Sunday 20 August 2006 04:12, James Knott wrote:
I shall never forget the day I introduced the 1200 baud modem (~1968) on the BBS I was running and one of the users complained BITTERLY that it should be removed immediately because he could not keep up when reading the text as it appeared on the screen! :-)
The good ol' days....
A BBS in 1968???? That was about 7 years before personal computers started to become popular and well before modems were readily available.
And well before the period you or anyone else has any right to expect exact memory of dates. I usually substitute the phrase "back in the Pliestoscene" for such long ago periods of time. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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