Thanks Seve. I'm actually using version 6.0 of Mandrake though.
At 12:42 AM 2/15/00 -0800, you wrote:
>Steve,
>
>You're going to run into a slew of problems trying to get your modem to
>work in Mdk7.0.
>
>As far as "sorry, modem is busy", I had to initiate the following sequence
>to fix it:
>(assuming your "isapnp.conf" is already set)
>#setserial /dev/ttyS1 UART unknown
>#isapnp isapnp.conf
>#setserial /dev/ttyS1 UART 16550A
>
>The trouble begins after you're able to communicate with your modem.
>
>PPPD gets real screwwy. I keep getting: "The remote system is required to
>authenticate itself but I couldn't find any secret
>(password) which would let it use an IP address." It would be able to
>handshake but not login completely.
>
>Russ Johnson - "I spent hours trying to fix this - I've reached the point
>that I think there's a bug in ppp-x.x.x-10. My fix was
>uninstalling x.x.x-10 and going back to x.x.x-8 from my 6.1 CD. All the
>problems disapeared and it works great."
>
>You can follow the thread titled "[expert] PPPD dying" and it should
>document the problems encountered.
>
>I haven't tried Russ' idea since I burned up too much time wrestling with
>this problem. But it seems to be the solution. Good luck
>and let us know how you did.
>
>Seve
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Steve Leseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 12:00 AM
>Subject: [newbie] Modem won't work anymore in Linux......
>
>
> >My modem used to work fine before reinstalling Mandrake following a system
> >upgrade. My USR internal modem worked under both Mandrake & MS Win when the
> >system was a Pentium 133. But now the same modem won't work with Mandrake
> >in what is now an AMD K2-6 450, although it still works fine in MS Win. I
> >don't get it. In PPP I get "sorry, modem is busy" and similar messages.
> >Sometimes the Modem Query button finds it, sometimes not. But it never
> >dials. I also tried Netconf to no avail. Someone mentioned earlier that you
> >have to disable Plug and Pray for this problem, but since it worked before,
> >I don't see how that could be the answer. The only other possibility I
> >could think of was maybe the computer shop swapped in a USR Winmodem. But
> >it otherwise seems the same as before - how would I know? Thanks!
> >
> >
> >
