OT: USR Modem troubles

2002-11-16 Thread Jeff Maxson
Hi all: sorry to bug you all about this, but I thought I would throw it out to those with more experience. I've got a USR external 56K modem...a little Sportster job, I think. Anyway, regardless of whether I boot into Linux or Windows, I have to dial-up anywhere from once to 10 times before I

Re: OT: USR Modem troubles

2002-11-16 Thread nate
Jeff Maxson said: not against purchasing a new chip and then borrowing a soldering iron if that would be cheaper... Ideas? I've used a lot of modems and never had one go bad on me yet(maybe I'm lucky). but it sounds to me that the problem is the line quality. If you can, have the phone

Re: OT: USR Modem troubles

2002-11-16 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
I don't think this is necessarily off topic. I too had the same problem, but it went away when I changed my init string or upgraded the modem's onboard code, I can't remember which. You can test init strings with hyperterm, minicom or other such programs. The atix where x is a number should help

Re: OT: USR Modem troubles

2002-11-16 Thread Hell.Surfers
check capacitors and resistors for faults with multimeter, if you dont have a qualification ill help you,. [sarcasm] you could always get it clean by soaking it in gasoline overnight.[/sarcasm] Regards, Dean. On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 15:41:08 -0600 (CST) Drew Scott Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: (FIXED) modem troubles

2001-07-22 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Martin F. Krafft (on Sat, 21 Jul 2001 10:52:41PM +0200): so i know that the modem works, but i can't get it to work on this specific machine... i recall: the machine is an old 486, and back when i upgrade the box in which this processor was doing its job to an AMD K6, i could not

modem troubles

2001-07-21 Thread Martin F. Krafft
hi all, i got an external modem, it's working fine on my laptop on ttyS0, but when i hook it up to a particular desktop machine (486DX2-66), it's behaving weirdly. i tried using wvdialconf and minicom, knowing that the modem is at ttyS0. furthermore, setserial configures it fine: embryo:/dev#

Re: modem troubles solved

2001-04-16 Thread Gl Elad
Hi, irq 9 _is_ irq 2. irq 9 - 16 are handled by a secondary interrupt controller, that's connected to the primary one at irq 2, so irq 2 is actually the first irq on the second controller, which is irq 9. At 03:21 PM 4/15/01 -0400, you wrote: hi guys, sorry for flooding then, for i in

Re: modem troubles solved

2001-04-16 Thread Kevin Easton
- Original Message - From: Gl Elad [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MaD dUCK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 8:30 PM Subject: Re: modem troubles solved Hi, irq 9 _is_ irq 2. irq 9 - 16 are handled by a secondary interrupt controller, that's

Re: modem troubles solved

2001-04-16 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Gl Elad (on Mon, 16 Apr 2001 12:30:38PM +0200): irq 9 _is_ irq 2. irq 9 - 16 are handled by a secondary interrupt controller, that's connected to the primary one at irq 2, so irq 2 is actually the first irq on the second controller, which is irq 9. well, i knew that but setting

modem troubles

2001-04-15 Thread MaD dUCK
hi, i have this pretty straight forward ISA modem, 33.6 and running off /dev/ttyS3: orange:~ setserial -a /dev/ttyS3 /dev/ttyS3, Line 3, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x02e8, IRQ: 3 Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0 closing_wait: 3000 Flags: spd_normal auto_irq i am

modem troubles solved

2001-04-15 Thread MaD dUCK
hi guys, sorry for flooding then, for i in {1..15}; do setserial /dev/modem $i; minicom; done revealed that it is running not off irq 3, but off irq 2. weird. when connecting, /proc/interrupts reports the serial driver to use irq 9. oh well, it works... thanks though if you spent even a second

Re: Modem Troubles (Connection)

2000-10-27 Thread Stephen Tuite
On 26 Oct 2000, John Hasler wrote: Stephen writes: I just switched from slackware and am trying to get a dialup connection to work. I've tried bothe pppconfig and wvdial and they both do the same thing, connect for 8 seconds then drop the connection. Post copies of

Modem Troubles (Connection)

2000-10-26 Thread Stephen Tuite
Hello, I just switched from slackware and am trying to get a dialup connection to work. I've tried bothe pppconfig and wvdial and they both do the same thing, connect for 8 seconds then drop the connection. My current isp is Mindspring. After using plog I get this, Connect:

Re: Modem Troubles (Connection)

2000-10-26 Thread John Hasler
Stephen writes: I just switched from slackware and am trying to get a dialup connection to work. I've tried bothe pppconfig and wvdial and they both do the same thing, connect for 8 seconds then drop the connection. Post copies of /etc/chatscripts/provider, /etc/ppp/peers/provider,

Modem Troubles

2000-08-26 Thread matthew
Hay all. I'm having much trouble with connections. Using: Potato, USR 3Com 56K FaxModem (external) I've got it set up right - the port I/Os and the IRQs are right (using ttyS0), the initialisation strings are correct, I'm using hardware control, loggin on to freeserve is OK (using PAP), the

Fw: Modem Troubles

2000-08-26 Thread Matthew Sackman
Just to add to the details, I've just noticed that when dialling, the noises are louder under windows than under Linux: dunno if this will make a difference though. Matthew Hay all. I'm having much trouble with connections. Using: Potato, USR 3Com 56K FaxModem (external) I've got it set up

Modem troubles

1999-04-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
greetings all... i've been having a blast with 2.1 but have run into some troubles with two modems... one is an internal zoom faxmodem 56k dual mode. i was trying to do the basix as the modem howto explains with kermitthe modem is found with setserial and i set it up with kermit but

Modem Troubles

1999-01-31 Thread Patrick Mauritz
Hi Deb-Users, I have a problem with a modem called 'SupraExpress 56i pro' a PCI-56K-Modem. How can I get access to it with debian. I can't access it via ttySx TIA -- Patrick Mauritz [EMAIL PROTECTED] not just a number

Re: Modem Troubles

1999-01-31 Thread Andrew Ivanov
Hi Deb-Users, I have a problem with a modem called 'SupraExpress 56i pro' a PCI-56K-Modem. How can I get access to it with debian. I can't access it via ttySx TIA One thing to try would be to use isapnp tool, if that modem of yours is, in fact, pnp. Does seem that way. The package is

Sound and Modem Troubles

1997-08-30 Thread Dan Gannon, WA5ANF
I have a Packard Bell 166 MHz Pentium Tower. I have suddenly lost BOTH the internal modem and all sound. I have installed an external modem and configued it, using Windows 95, for Serial Port 2, but that does not correct my problem with no sound. Are the modem and sound on the same card in this

Re: Sound and Modem Troubles

1997-08-30 Thread Will Lowe
On Sat, 30 Aug 1997, Dan Gannon, WA5ANF wrote: I have a Packard Bell 166 MHz Pentium Tower. I have suddenly lost BOTH the internal modem and all sound. I have installed an external modem and configued it, using Windows 95, for Serial Port 2, but that does not correct my problem with no