On Monday 15 September 2003 13:22, 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.
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Thanks again! Any other suggestions are greatfully appreciated!!!
Bernd, I have the exact same modem and have been using it since 7.1. It has been a PITA to set it up, but once done it works very well. Been through 4 upgrades since then 7.3, 8.0, 8,1, and now 8.2 Had to manually configure it every time even though Seems that SuSE is not very user friendly for PCI modems. YAST recognizes it but does not install it. It is ttyS4 It must be linked to /dev/modem. I have only been able to make it work with kinternet, never WVdial. Can't remember exactly but I had to make some changes in KPPP and peers. I missed the earliest part of the thread so Iam not sure exactly what your problem is. You do need to know what protocol your ISP is using, PAP, CHAP, or whatever and make appropriate entries in those files. Mine uses PAP. Make sure that your options file is edited properly, and that the line "plugin passwordfd.so" is in your /ppp/peers/kppp file. Read the ppp HOWTO. It helped me get this thing going. You may contact me off list if you have tried these things and still cannot solve it. Bob S.