Networking :: dialup problem

winmodems=evil

Quote (caulktel @ Dec. 01 2004,19:55)

With an attitude like that, I can see why he's unregistered.

Attitude? first, i've been to other linux forums and they'll argue with me forever that it *must* be a winmodem, and second, i'm unregistered because i don't intend to post here often. If i start posting more often, i'll sign up. By the way cbagger01, thanks, but i've already tried that, this is really confusing me, i'll probably end up switching to a more mainstream linux like slackware or something.

Since DSL is based on knoppix which is based on Debian, it is unlikely that these distros will see your modem either.

However, slackware uses a different kernel and configuration tool so it might work fine.

Maybe you can try out slackware by using the SLAX livecd. I have never used it, but it is supposed to be quite good.

I know for certain that getting a "dial-up" connection can be a real pain. I had the same problem connecting to the net,like none of the options listed would not work.

To quote cbagger01

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First step.

try all of the available COM ports for your modem

/dev/ttyS0
/dev/ttyS1
/dev/ttyS2
/dev/ttyS3

I know this sounds stupid but sometimes the modems and serial ports get mapped to a different device name than is expected.

...well instead of choosing one of the listed COM ports I edited one of the selections to read "/dev/ttyS4" and was able to make a dial-up connection.My modem is an internal US Robotics model 5610B.I have used this modem with success with other distros but have found that every distro seems a bit different to configure.

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