Wesley Parish wrote: > 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.
When it worked, it worked well. I did have to modprobe -r twice after hanging up before trying to use it again though. > In short, you wasted your money with that. All $0 dollars of it. It was a freebie. I wouldn't buy a winmodem. > External modems work well. If you can afford them. In any case, the winmodem is not the problem, because the ISA modem was the same result. Connects, then line dropped after <Enter> at the login: prompt. Cheers, Carl.
