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@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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