I recently set a friend up with SuSE Linux 6.3 on his system...

When it ran Win95 the modem worked fine as long as we installed the
drivers... 

The modme manual (a Viking v.90 based 56k external) says that no special
drivers should be needed.... and that ATZ or ATF0 or ATF1 shoulf work
fine for the init.

In SuSE, I have tried Kppp, wvdial, and even minicom and got similar
results with all of them.

the modem is connected to the second COM port, so it uses /dev/ttys1 or
/dev/cua1 - same results with either.

I can talk directly to the modem.  The AT commands return the right
values and I can get it to dial without a hitch.

It dials, handshakes fine, connects fine at decent speeds, but the
welcome/login screen comes up all garbled as it I were either using the
wrong character set or as if the RAS was not talking 8N1...

But... I *know* the RAS is talking 8N1, plain ASCII because I have
checked both the config AND the manual for the RAS. (I work at the ISP
it's dialling to...) and minicom verified I'm using 8N1 and vt102
emulation which shouldn't have any problems handling ascii.  As a test,
i tried setting minicom to ANSII, and all I got was a different set of
gobblydeegook.  Kppp, wvdial, and Minicom in vt102 mode all yield the
same indecipherable junk.  Kppp and wvdial both think this is a PPP
start on the remote end and begin the local session without a login.

I tried dialling in via a terminal in WinME on my laptop and the
welcome/login appeared fine.

The RAS is a rather active (aka, I can't realistically mess with
it) Alcatel ASX running kernel 3.4.1beta (don't ask... it works fine for
the other couple thousand users...).  I tried dialling into a second
similar box runing kernel 3.3.0 and got the exact same results.

Has anyone else seen this?  Anyone have any ideas what the problem might
be?  I'm pretty sure it's on the new Linux box's end or at least fixable
on that end... 

thanks in advance,

Brian

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