I have done alot of research on google. This problem seems to be pretty widespread. I started with Knoppix 3.2 and purchased an External Creative Modem Blaster (I believe model 5621) because I could not get a winmodem to work. With Knoppix 3.2 Creative Modem worked. I installed Knoppix 3.2 to the harddrive and it still worked. Then I decided to try Mandrake 9.2. Thats when I started getting this error. I have since gotten a copy of Knoppix 3.3 and it is having the same trouble. I sent an email to the address provided on the error page and this is what he wrote back:
I'd like to help but I don't know what to make out of this error:
16 The link was terminated by the modem hangingup.
If you ever find out, please tell me.
01/25/04
I had this problem once when using 'kppp' (I've switched to 'wvdial').
Suggestion 1) Turn on the modem's speaker so you can hear what's going on. Tell anyone nearby that this is *really* necessary. IIRC, the noise stops when the connection handshake is completed.
Suggestion 2) Increase *every* timeout setting you can find in 'kppp'. My problem was that the default 'kppp' waiting for a connection handshake to complete was 30 seconds. It was taking my modem 45 seconds to complete the handshake with the ISP. Hence my modem was 'hanging up' because it was never getting through the handshake due to 'kppp' stopping the handshake process at 30 seconds. I set the 'kppp' waiting to connect parameter (or whatever it's called) to 60 seconds and the problem went away.
HTH, The Other
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