Intel 536epmodem with Ubuntu 7.10
I am trying to set up a computer for a refugee family so they have email I downloaded a driver for 7.10 and could hear dial tone and it would dial out at my home, but when I tried it in their home I could not hear dial tone . We were trying to set it up with Kiwi on line but they don't give any linux support. Any ideas ? -- Ron Dean 2 Shannon Place Nawton Hamilton Ph 8493904
Well, here's a clue... You can hear dial tone and it would dial out at your place. You can't hear dial tone and therefore it won't go any further at their place. Have you check the phone line at the phone outlet at their place ? On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 21:28 +1300, Ron Dean wrote:
I am trying to set up a computer for a refugee family so they have email I downloaded a driver for 7.10 and could hear dial tone and it would dial out at my home, but when I tried it in their home I could not hear dial tone . We were trying to set it up with Kiwi on line but they don't give any linux support. Any ideas ?
I am going to take one of our phones to there place tommorow
Well, here's a clue...
You can hear dial tone and it would dial out at your place. You can't hear dial tone and therefore it won't go any further at their place.
Have you check the phone line at the phone outlet at their place ?
On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 21:28 +1300, Ron Dean wrote:
I am trying to set up a computer for a refugee family so they have email I downloaded a driver for 7.10 and could hear dial tone and it would dial out at my home, but when I tried it in their home I could not hear dial tone . We were trying to set it up with Kiwi on line but they don't give any linux support. Any ideas ?
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-- Ron Dean 2 Shannon Place Nawton Hamilton Ph 8493904
If you need any further help: I recently managed to set up this one; "01:00.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 536EP Data Fax Modem" under; "Linux xxxxxxx 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Sun Sep 23 19:50:39 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux" (Ubuntu 7.04 - Feisty?) successfully. I used the 'intel-536EP-2.56.76.0_23_02_2007.tgz' source to compile the driver IIRC. Let me know if you need any help. Cheers, Elroy. P.S: It DOES take a few seconds to initialise things when connecting (even on a Dual-Core 1.86GHZ!!) - you may need to give it a few seconds more - did you listen-in on a phone plugged into the same line? Apparently you also need? a dialer? that is capable of 'stupid'? mode - only had two dialers (wvdial? gnome-dialer?) on my machine that could do it IIRC. E-mail me if you want more info.
I came across a deb installer for Gutsy and we used a program called kppp to dial out. I connected to Kiwi Online but it seems to drop out very easily, I wondered if it was some of our settings or just bad service from KOL.
If you need any further help:
I recently managed to set up this one;
"01:00.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 536EP Data Fax Modem"
under;
"Linux xxxxxxx 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Sun Sep 23 19:50:39 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux" (Ubuntu 7.04 - Feisty?)
successfully.
I used the 'intel-536EP-2.56.76.0_23_02_2007.tgz' source to compile the driver IIRC.
Let me know if you need any help.
Cheers,
Elroy.
P.S: It DOES take a few seconds to initialise things when connecting (even on a Dual-Core 1.86GHZ!!) - you may need to give it a few seconds more - did you listen-in on a phone plugged into the same line?
Apparently you also need? a dialer? that is capable of 'stupid'? mode - only had two dialers (wvdial? gnome-dialer?) on my machine that could do it IIRC.
E-mail me if you want more info. _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug
-- Ron Dean 2 Shannon Place Nawton Hamilton Ph 8493904
From: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DialupModemHowto/Intel536EP " Connecting Dialing programs that will NOT work with this modem: * The Gnome Network program * ===> KPPP <=============== * pppconfig Dialing programs that WILL work with this modem: (because they allow 'stupid mode') * wvdial * gnome-ppp o Currently, the graphical program gnome-ppp is not included in the standard installation, but once you are connected with wvdial, you can easily install it with the Synaptic Package Manager. " IIRC, these worked OK for me on 7.04/Feisty. HTH. Elroy. Ron Dean wrote:
I came across a deb installer for Gutsy and we used a program called kppp to dial out. I connected to Kiwi Online but it seems to drop out very easily, I wondered if it was some of our settings or just bad service from KOL.
...these INSTRUCTIONS worked OK for me... Sorry :-) Elroy. elroy wrote:
From:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DialupModemHowto/Intel536EP
IIRC, these worked OK for me on 7.04/Feisty.
I'll try gnome-ppp and see if that helps I see that stupid mode has to be set as an option. Kppp is working but drops out very easily. Its on a Refugee family's computer I set up for them. elroy wrote:
...these INSTRUCTIONS worked OK for me...
Sorry :-)
Elroy.
elroy wrote:
From:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DialupModemHowto/Intel536EP
IIRC, these worked OK for me on 7.04/Feisty.
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-- Ron Dean 2 Shannon Place Nawton Hamilton Ph 8493904
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:16:25 +1300 Ron Dean <rvdean(a)ihug.co.nz> wrote:
I'll try gnome-ppp and see if that helps I see that stupid mode has to be set as an option. Kppp is working but drops out very easily. Its on a Refugee family's computer I set up for them.
Just to add to dial-up thingies ... Try setting your /etc/ppp/options to read as follows, it seems to help here with dealing with random drop-outs when connecting to Infogen, KiwiOnline and ClearNET. ==== Cut here ==== lock noauth defaultroute ipcp-max-configure 65 ipcp-accept-local ipcp-accept-remote idle 600 ==== Cut here ==== John
Hello, I have some vague recollection about the dial up software sending "are you there messages?" to the ISP. The ISP that I used at the time didn't respond to these messsage and therefore after 20 "are you there messages?" the dial up software assumed it wasn't connected and terminated the connection. To fix this I had to amend some setting in ppp/options (not sure exactly as this is all about 5 years ago now) to stop it sending the "are you there?" message. Are there any error messages either in /var/log/messages that explain why the dial up application is dropping the connection? Cheers Chris On Tuesday 11 December 2007 01:42:43 John Rye wrote:
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:16:25 +1300
Ron Dean <rvdean(a)ihug.co.nz> wrote:
I'll try gnome-ppp and see if that helps I see that stupid mode has to be set as an option. Kppp is working but drops out very easily. Its on a Refugee family's computer I set up for them.
Just to add to dial-up thingies ...
Try setting your /etc/ppp/options to read as follows, it seems to help here with dealing with random drop-outs when connecting to Infogen, KiwiOnline and ClearNET.
==== Cut here ==== lock noauth defaultroute ipcp-max-configure 65 ipcp-accept-local ipcp-accept-remote idle 600 ==== Cut here ====
John
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