Today, Bill Freeman gleened this insight:
> Sadly, three weeks is a week too long to be able to take
> advantage of Staples' 14 day return policy. It may be that I need to
> play with the modem settings (adjust the initialization string sent by
> my chat script) and things will be fine, but maybe not. I'll report
> any progress if I make it. (Anybody want to try this thing from a
> different laptop, or with a different OS?)
There may not be anything wrong with your modem, or its support under
Linux. Trying it in a different laptop and different OS is a good idea,
but only if you keep everything else the same, i.e. your phone connection,
and ISP. My first instinct is to suspect that your phone line is the
problem, unless you've had better success with other 56K modems in the
past.
There are also issues with differing versions of the V.90 protocol that
can cause you problems. I don't remember the details but I believe I read
about that problem on a website dedicated to 56k modem access.
The URL is
http://www.56k.com/
I'd be curious to know what kind of success you have figuring out the
problem.
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