I had a similar problem with an old Zoom modem. When I upgraded to an external US Robotics 56K and all my troubles went away. (different com port, same IRQ (moved from 4 to 2) (internal to external) ) I never was able to determine the cause of the original modem failure. I would highly recommend the external US Robotics, as it has never caused me any grief. --shawn -----Original Message----- From: Richard Loken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 1999 2:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RedHat 5.1 PPP and /dev/modem - what really happened I thought I would tell you why my ppp connection didn't work. /dev/modem is indeed irrelivent as several people told me. I replaced my Hayes Accura 288 modem with another "identical" modem and every thing worked like a charm with no changes to my config at all. It turns out that my Accura 288 has version 6.0 firmware and the working Accura 288 has version 7.0 firmware. Until I receive evidence to the contrary, I am blaming the firmware since the modem works fine for generic terminal connections using minicom but it out to lunch as soon as ppp is mentioned. Meawhile, I am shopping for a new external 56K modem. Thankyou for your assistance gentlemen. Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those Athabasca University : tuques we wear, our heads Athabasca, Alberta Canada : are naked!" ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** : - Arthur Black - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
