On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:41, Carl Cerecke wrote: > I'm having a problem connecting to my ISP, maxnet. They don't know what > the problem is. Linux is officialy unsupported by them (incidentally, > they only told me that *after* I had problems, even though I was very > upfront about using Linux all the time and it all seemed OK. > > Actually the modem connects to maxnet fine. I get a login: prompt, and, > if I'm doing it manually, I can sit there and casually type in my > username. The connection is up. As soon as I hit enter, the connection > is dropped. > > I have two modems, a 28.8 ISA (Zoom) and a 56K PCI (HSF).
_HCF_? AAAARGH! They are diabolical to try to use with Linux, the reason being that the driver software is usually kept firmly under lock and key, and the only time I tried to use one in Linux, it crashed the system. In short, you wasted your money with that. "winmodems" are a waste of time and money unless you using one that has had a driver specifically written for Linux and continuously updated. (Or opensourced - that way it can be updated without hassle.) External modems work well. Wesley Parish The 56K modem > used to work properly. I didn't try with the 28.8 previously, but both > exhibit the same problem now. The 28.8K will successfully connect to a > modem at university (also 28.8K) , and the connection is not dropped. > The 56K modem is not able to establish a connection with the 28.8K modem > at university, and never has been able to. I seem to be the only > customer reporting this problem. > > I'm considering another ISP. I only need about 10hrs a week dial-up and > a few mailboxes. I collect my CLUG email from here at work. Any > suggestions about the problem or an alternative ISP? > > Cheers, > Carl. -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
