Hi there, I am trying to get my modem to communicate with the one at work. Using dial-up networking from window$ works, but it is pretty ennoying to reboot to the window$ OS every time I need my modem.
I read the Serial and PPP-HOWTO's as well as the PPP-over-minicom mini-HOWTO. I made sure my modem is configured as described in section 9.3 of the PPP-HOWTO (these were default anyway). The point where I get stuck each time is section 9.5, i.e. testing the modem for dial out. What happens is the following: I start minicom, the modem initializes, I dial my phone-number at work, and after some seconds, ... connection is established. As pointed out it is then question of finding out what the ppp-host requires as login procedure. The trouble is that I never receive any prompt, nor any other "funny characters" as suggested in these HOWTO's. Basically nothing happens. (Remark: I am almost sure that my corporate site uses PAP.) I've already spend too much time on this, hope someone can put me one the right track again, otherwise I will have to abandon the idea. Good help highly appreciated. --Erwin PS. Since a few days (since diving into the above) I keep getting 'lp1 at 0x0378 (polling)' and 'lp1 off-line' in my startup messages (dmesg). Any possible connection or just something else I managed to screw up ? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .