Hi, Sorry about the lack of detail. It is an external model on COM port 1 (ttyS0) and I have tried a couple. The one I am using at present is a dynalink one. I have tried configuring it using the Network Configuration tool and while it appears that I have been able to activate the PPP link, I don't think it has in reality. How important is an initialisation string for the modem? Thanks Roger wlug-request(a)list.waikato.ac.nz wrote:
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1. Configuring Modem for Email and Internet (Roger Oed) 2. Re: Configuring Modem for Email and Internet (zcat)
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Message: 1 Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 00:20:41 +1300 From: Roger Oed <oed.fam(a)family.net.nz> Subject: [wlug] Configuring Modem for Email and Internet To: wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Message-ID: <41AEFA89.60809(a)family.net.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Hi All,
I am trying to configure my Redhat 8.0 box to work with a modem for e-mail and Internet access. I have configured my e-mail account correctly, and have configured a network connection for the modem. When the machine starts up, during the Bios phase the machine obviously sees the modem. However, when I try to run the e-mail it immediately returns an error indicating that it hasn't seen the modem. Can anyone suggest some tests I can perform to try and identify the source of the error or any reasons why Linux does not appear to see the modem, please?
Thanks Roger
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Message: 2 Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 09:00:11 +1300 From: zcat <zcat(a)maxnet.co.nz> Subject: Re: [wlug] Configuring Modem for Email and Internet To: oed.tem1(a)family.net.nz, Waikato Linux Users Group <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Message-ID: <41AF744B.6030408(a)maxnet.co.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Roger Oed wrote:
Hi All,
I am trying to configure my Redhat 8.0 box to work with a modem for e-mail and Internet access. I have configured my e-mail account correctly, and have configured a network connection for the modem. When the machine starts up, during the Bios phase the machine obviously sees the modem. However, when I try to run the e-mail it immediately returns an error indicating that it hasn't seen the modem. Can anyone suggest some tests I can perform to try and identify the source of the error or any reasons why Linux does not appear to see the modem, please?
What sort of modem? External, internal, ISA or PCI? (If you still have Windows installed, just boot into Windows and tell us what it's identified as under the Device Manager)
My first guess is that it's a software-driven modem (aka 'winmodem'; many of these work in Linux, but almost all require extra drivers and setting up that aren't part of the standard install. There's probably helpful info on the wiki if you search for 'winmodem'.
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Roger Oed wrote:
Hi,
Sorry about the lack of detail. It is an external model on COM port 1 (ttyS0) and I have tried a couple. The one I am using at present is a dynalink one. I have tried configuring it using the Network Configuration tool and while it appears that I have been able to activate the PPP link, I don't think it has in reality. How important is an initialisation string for the modem?
Init string shouldn't matter; the modem defaults are usually fairly sane anyway. How far through the connection does it appear to be getting? Since it's an external check that you have "OH" and "CD" lighting up, also you should see RD and SD blink a few times. IF it doesn't hang up right away (CD/OH going off again) then you're probably logging in OK and the next thing to look at is routing or DNS. If things don't light up, you need to make sure that the modem device is definately /dev/ttyS0 (usually Redhat will make a link /dev/modem which is a shortcut to /dev/ttyS0 and use that for all the settings) /var/log/messages and /var/log/pppd should contain more clues. The other option is bring it along to a meeting.
How far through the connection does it appear to be getting? Since it's an external check that you have "OH" and "CD" lighting up, also you should see RD and SD blink a few times. IF it doesn't hang up right away (CD/OH going off again) then you're probably logging in OK and the next thing to look at is routing or DNS. If things don't light up, you need to make sure that the modem device is definately /dev/ttyS0 (usually Redhat will make a link /dev/modem which is a shortcut to /dev/ttyS0 and use that for all the settings) /var/log/messages and /var/log/pppd should contain more clues.
The other option is bring it along to a meeting.
We can check that the modem is being talked to correctly, but we do not have a venue that allows us to actually use a phoneline to test dialup, so please make sure you give us some advanced warning if you plan to come to a meeting just to get dialup issues fixed. Cheers Jamie
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