Ladies and Gentlemen, In the past I have been running a Slackware distribution on my Pentium 100 and have had no problems with ppp and minicom and seyon communicating with my modem. Recently I decided to upgrade/change to the RedHat 5.0 distribution. Naturally I saved/backed up software, but only the source code distributions of the software that that was not included with RedHat that I wanted to continue to use. Since I heard great things about RedHat setup I did not save basic canned scripts, etc. Now here is the problem: When I start minicom (for example) it takes forever to communicate with the modem. The modem init string takes about 10 to 15 seconds to appear on the screen and then creeps across one or two commands at a time. I get no OK when I type in AT. For that matter it takes 5 to 10 seconds before AT even appears on the screen and another 5 to 10 seconds before the line feed occurs, and then still no OK from the modem. I know the modem works as I pulled it and put it into another intel box, not to mention :-) that It worked fine ten minutes before I installed the RedHat system. The same scenario occurrs with seyon under X. I've completely lost my ISP service since ppp doesn't want to work either and although the RedHat setup appears to be very simple, without a doubt the ppp scripts are the most confusing thing I've run into on a Linux box yet. If this is typical of RedHat, I'm running back to slackware as fast as my little pentium can carry me. Thanks for any assistance. JC please reply directly to me as well as the list as I'm only subscribed to linux-apps. Thanks one and all. _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]
