I have been following this thread because a friend has an external RS-232 modem on his Linux desktop. We have been trying to get this going under Gutsy for a few weeks now. I will try the suggestions made in this thread. When we have worked it out then I'll write up a HOWTO and post it to the wiki. J On 3/17/08, Shannon Skinner <shannonsnz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
That's pretty much what I was thinking.
The funny thing is that it can still dial up and connect to the ISP, but just falls over with the LCP requests...
I don't think it's worth investing any more time in this particular piece of hardware: I can't imagine telling the parents, every time you want to call someone remember to unplug the modem!
It might be an interesting side-project for someone at the next fixit meeting ;)
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 10:48 PM, elroy <elroy(a)ihug.co.nz> wrote:
From the sound of it, if connecting the modem directly to the phone line kills your normal phone, and this is with/without it being plugged into the computer via USB/whatever... I think it may be dead...
HTH.
Elroy.
Shannon Skinner wrote:
Thank you for the suggestions, they all sounded like they would work but unfortunately none of them did the trick for me. It still sends those darn LCP requests.
I have a feeling that there may be other issues: connecting the USB modem to a phone jack, kills the dial out ability of our home phone. It doesn't matter whether the modem is connected to the computer or not. I can get a dial-tone, dial a number and then nothing. Unplug the phone line to the modem and the home phone works again. Weird!
I might bring it down to the next fix-it meeting, to see if anybody has any ideas...
Cheers
Shannon
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