Networking :: Hi, Im having trouble putting my DialUp connection



LMAO this is the funniest thread i have seen in a long time thank you for the laugh lmao:p
gekkokid,
When you're done laughing maybe you could jump in and help?

To everyone thats trying to get dialup going,
You have to know what you have for a modem, externals are fairly well supported I think, not sure, never had one.
Internal pci modems have some support, Lucent/Agere, Conexant HCF, HSF can be used but you have to get a driver, most times that means getting the driver source code and compiling the driver. I have no idea about ISA modems, something tells me they're probably not worth the effort.

To compile the driver you need compiling tools that are'nt included in DSL or a lot of other Linux disros for that matter.
You will also need the kernel source and maybe kernel headers for some cards, for whatever kernel you're running.

I've built these drivers for every Linux distro I've had and in the end, it's a helluva lot easier to just get an external modem that you know is supported.
I'm on wireless now, (you have no idea how happy that makes me) course I ended up with a D-Link 520+ with a crappy TI chipset so I'm back to building drivers.

I won't go into configuring a Winmodem driver, you've got the fun of building it first but the Lucent/Agere package does some configuring for you, the HCF sometimes needs a symlink for /dev/modem.
Neither of these cards uses a standard /tty, they use /tty/LT0 for the Lucent or /tty/SHCF0 for the Conexant HCF

Check /proc/pci, it'll show the card name if it's detected. With these two cards I had only one distro that did'nt detect it.


Hope thats some help,

roadie
BTW, Serenity, thats the best step by step I've seen in a long time
Is there a command (or sequence of commands) to check that a modem is working and properly configured that could be run before trying to setup PPP?  Would stty give useful information?  Like other folks, I tried pppconfig and pon several times on my laptop, but I think the problem is simply that the modem is not configured properly.  Maybe some expert could make a little "testmodem" script that newbies (like me) could run before bothering with PPP configuration.
ISA modems do work. I have a 56K, and use it all the time with Wvdial.
No, it will not work with the 6x or 7x DSL's, but will work with 0.5.3, which has Wvdial.
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Hi
I'm using ZyXEL OMNI 56K. It's configured properly. When it dials ISP's number, system closes modem in about 40 seconds, no matter what connection sounds modem makes. When using Windows, Mandrake Linux 9.1, Knoppix 3.4, it connects very well. Anyone knows how to set modem timeout in DSL? Or any other suggestions?
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