Steve - You will certainly harvest a very severe reminder from you-know-who, for calling a linux device "a silly thing".
This said, the describe behaviour of the modem points to three possible reasons: -- wrong CRT/RTS (hard handshake) setting; -- wrong IRQ setting; -- authentication problems (ID, password). For the first two, "setserial" _might_ help <bg>, for all three problems, and _if_ you run X, "Kppp" offers the widest choice for dine tung a dila-up connection. (Only vaguely related question: is it a good choice to have a dial-up connection ON all the time from booting to shut-down ?) The Nettamer question seems clearly a matter of authentification at the mail (POP3 ans SMTP) servers of your ISP. Try to find out what kind of authentification they use. Maybe even using the IP _numbers_ (if you can get thes out of the unhelpful ISP) of these servers in Nettamer's setup helps. Dial-in with "log on only", then from the online "work" menu try "Check Mail Only & Stay On", and then _thereafter_ only try "Send Replies". This would take care for th more simple checking methods of ISPs using SMTP-after-POP. Though if already "Check Mail" doesn't work, there's more trouble... more and more ISPs install additional authentification, and Nettamer doesn't cope with all of these. One source of trouble is a difference between NET access (dial-in) and access to the ISP's servers; the ISPs would only accept those dynamic IP addresses you get with dial-in given from their _own_ net access server. If access provider and ISP are different, it should still be possible to _fetch_ mail from the POP3 if all settings indeed are correct. (Everything in Nettamer's "scripts" bears only on the initial, dial-in access server; it does use PAP or CHAP by default but this doesn't help with a subsequent ISP authentification.) Though I tried one of those "free mailbox" thingies - where both access- and I-"services" were together - not so long ago where Nettamer (and any other non-Winno$ mailgear for that part) just wouldn't arrive ever. // Heimo Claasen // <hammer at revobild dot net> // Brussels 2003-01-19 The WebPlace of ReRead - and much to read ==> http://www.revobild.net To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
