On 23-Jun-98 Jim Kusznir wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Chris Mayes wrote:
>
>> Hello. Yes, it's me, again. I have tried many, many ways of connecting
>> with
>> no luck. None of the scripts I run even pick up the modem, nor do they
>> report
>> any errors. pppd run with '-v chat <my script>' does exactly the same
>> thing:
>> nothing. The only thing that can access my modem is minicom. Heartened by
>> this, I set minicom up with a script to automatically set up my PPP stuff.
>> However, when I tried to use it, the display was appallingly slow, for some
>> reason. Instructions take nearly a minute to display. The initialization
>> string does not even show up until well after the handshake. In any case,
>> the
>> script does not even initialize, possibly because of the massive delay.
>> When
>> the login prompt finally creeps accross the screen, I perform the login
>> manually. When it gets to the ppp-start, the modem disconnects. Any ideas?
>> I'd still like to find out why none of the scripts access the modem
>> correctly,
>> or at all, and still do not report any problems. Thanks in advance.
>
> I experienced similar problems with a modem on a client's computer. The
> fix was the "proper" init string. Of couse, this was about 10 AT-subcommands
> long, so there was no real way to deturmine it on my own. What did it was
> the Win95 driver. I downloaded that and brought the ini file up on an
> editor. part of the way down was the Init string. I used that init
> string, and it started working perfectly. That same modem is running to
> this day (it was about 6 months ago I set it up initially).
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> -----
> Jim Kusznir ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> RidgeNET Tech Support
> 371-3501
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Another thing to check is to make sure your modem and your kernel are in
agreement as to which IRQ to use.
--
Steve Borho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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