General advice:
1. Try to dial your ISP from a terminal app, such as minicom or seyon, and
see what happens.
2. Check your logs (probably /var/log/messages and /var/log/debug) to see
what pppd and its dialer (chat? you don't say) report about the attempt. if
you aren't getting any reporting there, change the options supplied to pppd
to include "debug" and "kebug 0", and make sure chat is being run in verbose
mode (this may involve adding a "-v" to the script line that invokes it).
3. If (1) above doesn't work, try dialing your ISP literally by hand, from
an actual phone plugged into the same jack you are using for the modem --
make sure you have the right number and the line works.
4. Make sure you have the modem connected properly -- if it has two jacks on
the back, the one (probably) marked "line" is the one that connects to the
wall, not the one (probably) marked "phone".
Clarifying questions:
1. You say "all I hear is some clicking sounds on the modem". Do you mean
that exactly? No dial tone? Do DTMF (Touch-Tone) tones? No ringing tones? If
so, then you're not getting a dial tone and the modem is trying to use pulse
dialing. Check your connection between the modem and the phone line, and
check your dialing string (DTMF is ATDT, pulse is ATDP). If that's not what
you mean, be more specific about what you do and don't hear.
2. You say you use "Linux 5.2". No such thing. Some Linux *distributions*
(Red Hat, SuSE, maybe Mandrake or PHT's TurboLinux) have 5.2 versions, but
not Linux itself. So which distribution are you actually using?
3. In up-to-date distributions, the use of the /dev/cua* devices has been
deprecated in favor of use of the /dev/ttyS* devices for both incoming and
outgoing connections. You might check if that is causing you any problems.
4. "statserial"? Is this a (distribution-specific) app I'm unfamiliar with,
or did you mean "setserial"?
At 05:25 PM 6/27/99 -0400, Chris Job wrote:
>Hey Folks...
>I'm totally lost..... I think I configured my PC (Linux 5.2) correctly
>to be able to dial my ISP, but to no avail. I know it recognizes the
>modem (generic 144) on com 2/cua1 (used statserial utility to check)
>Also used modemtool to configure everything...... When I attempt to
>connect, all I hear is some clicking sounds on the modem, I don't hear
>the usual high pitched sounds of modems talking.
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