Ok, great!
If you can, return that modem and buy a Hayes Accura External 56Kflex Voice
Modem (upgradeable to v.90).
We just got one and it works Great! Right out of the box!
They should have "Supports Linux" on the box. =)
Dan
At 05:29 PM 5/1/98 +1000, George Williamson wrote:
>Dan,
> Thanks for the reply I think it's my modem see my other reply to the
>list's.
>
>Thank you,
>George Williamson.
>
>
>
>At 01:58 AM 5/1/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>
>>I'm assuming you either figured out what you have done so far, or have seen
>>http://www.valleynet.bc.ca/~dan/autoppp.html
>>http://www.valleynet.bc.ca/~dan/autoppp1.html
>>
>>If you know you have everything proper, check /usr/local/etc/mgetty+sendfax
>>if it's there then that's your problem. If not, make sure your modem is
>>working properly. I have had the 'worst' experience over the past few weeks
>>trying to setup first AutoPPP (to make sure everything was working right),
>>then portslave.
>>It turned out this f&*king motherboard (houston m575) would NOT let go of
>>IRQ12 in the bios, even after telling it to. The bocaboard's default IRQ is
>>12. So, in the end switching the bocaboard over to IRQ11 fixed everything.
>>(all other motherboards I have tried worked just fine)
>>One thing to note. With it being on IRQ12 it seemed as though everything
>>was fine. It would answer the call, and see it was an AutoPPP session, but
>>would NOT authenticate it.
>>
>>This drove me so close to the edge it's not funny!
>>
>>So, the moral is. It could very well be a hardware conflict somewhere.
>>
>>Good Luck.
>>
>>
>>Dan
>>
>>At 08:37 AM 5/1/98 +1000, George Williamson wrote:
>>>Hi all,
>>> I'm still trying to get my server going. I have tried everything
>>>including a new pentium chip and motherboard since i was running a cyrix
>>>chip. The problem now is that everything logs on as /AutoPPP/ but ppp has
>>>not started so login /AutoPPP/ is thrown out. Have chmod u+s
>>>/usr/sbin/pppd, recomplied both versions ie 1.12 & 1.9 a thousand times and
>>>all i have changed was the Cflags @ line 111 and added -DAUTO_PPP and the
>>>prefix also the DEVICE _GROUP in policy-h from modem to uucp. Using RH5
>>>kernel 2.0.33 with ppp support and Charles Fishers version of pppd 2.2.0f-5
>>>. Have tried compling ppp-2.2.0g but that will not complie. Has anybody got
>>>any idea what I,m doing wrong??? I,m going crazy!!!!
>>>
>>>TIA,
>>>George Williamson.
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