Hi everybody,
Last week I said I would explain how I solved my modem and conection problems
in case it could help someone, as I've seen there's so many people with this
tipe of problems.
Well, I don't know "exactly" what my problems where, but I guess something to
do with IRQ, ports, modem, etc. settings. First I didn't have Kppp in my
Linux, I didn't even know it existed and I was trying to connect using ppp0 or
something like that. Now I have Kppp and it works fine.
PC:
-My modem is: Zoom VoiceVideoFax Modem 56K - Internal ISA/PnP (NOT a winmodem)
on ttyS1 (COM2 in W98)
-Pentium 133 Mhz
-2 Hard drives of 1,2 Gig. each (one with Linux Mandrake 7.0 and the other W98)
-RAM 24 Mb.
-Mouse: 3 button serial Genius on ttyS0 (COM1 in W98)
-Printer: Epson Stylus Colour 440
First of all, BIOS settings:
Go into BIOS with Del at boot.
Go to Power Management Setup:
- Set MODEM use IRQ: 3
Go to PNP/PCI Configuration:
- IRQ 3 assigned to: PCI/ISA PnP
Go to Integrated Peripherals:
- Onboard Serial Port 1: Auto
- Onboard Serial Port 2: Auto
ESC
F10 and Exit
Reboots automatically.
Now Kppp Configuration:
Go to Conections:
- Add
- Give a name to your conection
- Select the conection you've just created and click Edit
The following is all inside the Edit of the conection you've just created:
Go to mark, ( the first tab on the left, I'm not sure of the english name of
this)
- Enter conection Name
- Phone Number of your ISP
- Authentication: PAP (unless you have to use something else like CHAP, etc.)
Go to IP Address:
- Check IP set by server (unless you have a static IP)
Go to Name Servers:
- Enter the Domain Name of your ISP
- DNS, click on Add and enter the primary DNS of your ISP and then do the same
with the secondary DNS
Go to Gateway:
- Select Default gateway
- check default path to gateway
OK and back to the Kppp main configuration.
Go to Serial Device:
- Modem Device: /dev/ttyS1 (or whatever serial port you have it set to)
- Flow Control: CRTSCTS
- End of Line: CR/LF
- Conection Speed: 115200
- leave the "use file block" selected (I don't know what this is, I just left
it how it was by default )
- Modem timeout: 120 secs.
Go to Modem:
- Wait for busy line: 0 (default)
- Modem Volume: Low (I guess you can set it how you like, but when I had it on
High, when starting the conection it hanged while "setting modem volume", so I
set it on Low and now it's OK)
Go to ppp:
- pppd timeout: 120 (I don't know what this means, but I set it the same as the
modem timeout)
- check the following options: Show clock in title-bar, Disconect when closing
X Server and Minimize window when conection.
And that's about it, at least for me now it works OK. If someone has any
questions you're welcome to ask, I don't promise I can help because I'm very,
very newbie in this, but with all these problems I've had I've learnt quite a
lot, so there's always a good side on everything, even if it looks like a
terrible problem. If everything had worked OK right from the begining I
wouldn't have learnt anything new.
I hope these settings can help someone.
Cheers,
Carol^
