On Monday 03 February 2003 09:35 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I tried the extra string and it man no > > > > difference. > > > > > > Marc > > > > I knew that, since that perticular string is for v92 > > modems, but the point was, on the USRobotics website > > they might have a lot of info about the model number of > > that modem and if it requires any "special" init > > settings. have you tried the other modem on this box? > > maybe a bad or screwed up modem or modem cable... > > unless you have swapped them with "known good" items, > > and as long as this problem is not specific to either > > OS.. how can you know? > > You may have a point I am going to have a look at > the US Robotics website however this makes no sense to > me I have tried another modem just like this one but > not a different cable. was the problem cured useing a differnet modem? same cable and box?
> However I am going to try the > modem and cable off my other box that has ML 9.0 > installed and working. I have used this same brand and > model of modem on at least 6 other ML9.0 installations > and no special action was ever required. Getting this > model modem to work in Mandrake Linux or any other OS > has always been a 100% nobrainer as far as how do I > know that this modem is good I am using it right now > on the windoze part of the machine and have been using > it several times a day every day for the last 4 days > on the windoze side of this machine. and have used > this modem and cable before on other machines. well then ignor my asking if the modem is good, and don't bother switching it around.. my bad for not realizing it worked good on the M$side of the box. what does your /etc/ppp/options file look like? I > always like this brand and model of modem because it > is always up until this point super simple to use in > any operating system and any brand or vintage of > machine that I have ever tried this model on. Redhat, > mandrake 8.0, 8.1, 8.2 9.0 windoze 95, 98, 2000, ME > and Mac > And this model always seems to play niceley with any > and every ISP. I have seen some brands and models of > modem work like crap with some ISPs and work well with > others but never a us robotics sportster. The > sportster seems to be almost a industry standard along > with some of the Hayes modems of course. IMHO Hayes > seems to have written the standards and with the > sportster series US Robotics seems to have done a > flawless job of sticking to those standards. As a > rule of thumb IMHO if you want a a modem to work first > time every time anywhere on anything get a old US > Robotics sportster. No I am not a US Robotics or 3 Com > employee. I really have to tend to think that ML is > having trouble communicating with the serial port on > this machine. That seems kind of unlikely but laptops > and notebooks seem to be prone to having odd crap > going on, at least in my experance so far. But thanks > for the comments anything is worth a try. I may also > try a older version of Mandrake just to see what > happens. > > Marc I agree that you might be having problems with the serial port and mandrake, maybe a corrupted file somewhere, what does /var/logs/dmesg say anything like this in there? Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
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