Carolina,
Do you think that this will help with my problem. Whenever I try to start
kppp I get an error telling me that the modem is busy. The modem is a non
win modem USR ISA PNP modem.
Thanks,
Aaron
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Carolina Kohler
> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 4:33 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] USRobotics modem problems
>
>
> Hi,
> I had the same type of problems with my modem, with the
> volume and other things
> that I'm not even sure what it was. The volume problem was
> solved setting it
> to low volume.
> I also had a hard time trying to set it on ttyS1 (COM2 in
> Windows); I arranged
> that through the BIOS settings. I posted a message a few days
> ago explaining
> how I solved it, in case you didn't read it, here it goes again:
>
> "Hi everybody,
> Last week I said I would explain how I solved my modem and
> conection problems
> in case it could help someone, as I've seen there's so many
> people with this
> tipe of problems.
> Well, I don't know "exactly" what my problems where, but I
> guess something to
> do with IRQ, ports, modem, etc. settings. First I didn't have
> Kppp in my
> Linux, I didn't even know it existed and I was trying to
> connect using ppp0 or
> something like that. Now I have Kppp and it works fine.
> PC:
> -My modem is: Zoom VoiceVideoFax Modem 56K - Internal
> ISA/PnP (NOT a winmodem)
> on ttyS1 (COM2 in W98)
> -Pentium 133 Mhz
> -2 Hard drives of 1,2 Gig. each (one with Linux Mandrake 7.0
> and the other W98)
> -RAM 24 Mb.
> -Mouse: 3 button serial Genius on ttyS0 (COM1 in W98)
> -Printer: Epson Stylus Colour 440
>
> First of all, BIOS settings:
> Go into BIOS with Del at boot.
> Go to Power Management Setup:
> - Set MODEM use IRQ: 3
> Go to PNP/PCI Configuration:
> - IRQ 3 assigned to: PCI/ISA PnP
> Go to Integrated Peripherals:
> - Onboard Serial Port 1: Auto
> - Onboard Serial Port 2: Auto
> ESC
> F10 and Exit
> Reboots automatically.
>
> Now Kppp Configuration:
> Go to Conections:
> - Add
> - Give a name to your conection
> - Select the conection you've just created and click Edit
> The following is all inside the Edit of the conection you've
> just created:
> Go to mark, ( the first tab on the left, I'm not sure of the
> english name of
> this)
> - Enter conection Name
> - Phone Number of your ISP
> - Authentication: PAP (unless you have to use something else
> like CHAP, etc.)
> Go to IP Address:
> - Check IP set by server (unless you have a static IP)
> Go to Name Servers:
> - Enter the Domain Name of your ISP
> - DNS, click on Add and enter the primary DNS of your ISP and
> then do the same
> with the secondary DNS
> Go to Gateway:
> - Select Default gateway
> - check default path to gateway
> OK and back to the Kppp main configuration.
>
> Go to Serial Device:
> - Modem Device: /dev/ttyS1 (or whatever serial port you have
> it set to)
> - Flow Control: CRTSCTS
> - End of Line: CR/LF
> - Conection Speed: 115200
> - leave the "use file block" selected (I don't know what this
> is, I just left
> it how it was by default )
> - Modem timeout: 120 secs.
> Go to Modem:
> - Wait for busy line: 0 (default)
> - Modem Volume: Low (I guess you can set it how you like, but
> when I had it on
> High, when starting the conection it hanged while "setting
> modem volume", so I
> set it on Low and now it's OK)
> Go to ppp:
> - pppd timeout: 120 (I don't know what this means, but I set
> it the same as the
> modem timeout)
> - check the following options: Show clock in title-bar,
> Disconect when closing
> X Server and Minimize window when conection.
>
> And that's about it, at least for me now it works OK. If
> someone has any
> questions you're welcome to ask, I don't promise I can help
> because I'm very,
> very newbie in this, but with all these problems I've had
> I've learnt quite a
> lot, so there's always a good side on everything, even if it
> looks like a
> terrible problem. If everything had worked OK right from the
> begining I
> wouldn't have learnt anything new.
>
> I hope these settings can help someone.
> Cheers,
> Carol^"
>
>
>
> El lun, 18 sep
> 2000, escribiste: > I've go a USR Courier V-everything
> internal modem. I had
> some problems with > setting it up, but finally got them
> resolved. In KPPP, the
> highest volume > setting doesn't work because the modem
> doesn't recognize the
> command for > setting that volume. However, the lower volume
> level works fine.
> > > Andy Koepke
> >
> > Robert Griffiths wrote:
> >
> > > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kandace Little)
> > > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > >Subject: [newbie] USRobotics modem problems
> > > >Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 06:59:16 -0300
> > >
> > > Hi, i've got a U.S. Robotics aswell, my speaker don't
> work either, i'm new
> > > to this, when i was setting up my connection, the only
> thing that stopped me
> > > getting connected was not putting the right DNS servers
> addresses in, soon
> > > as i corrected that, i was connected in no time. If this
> is the problem you
> > > should be able to get the addresses from your ISP or go
> into MS-DOS> Type
> > > WINIPCFG> You should then get a pop up telling you your
> DNS address along
> > > with alot of other stuff. Well hope this help's...good luck.
> > >
> > > Robert Griffiths
> > >
> > > >I can not get this modem working wit Linux not sure
> > > >why though, It works just find when running windows.
> > > >It is a sportster 33.6 ENT FAX modem and I find I like
> > > >the little thing ;).
> > > >
> > > >The problem I am having is that when I go to call out,
> > > >it finds the modem says it is ready then starts to
> > > >initialize and goes no father. My modem is in COM
> > > >port 1, I used dev/ttyS0 instead of dev/modem. I also
> > > >tried it the other way as well. It once said that it was
> > > >setting speaker volume but stopped there.
> > > >
> > > >Speaker does not mean that much to me anyway since
> > > >I can not seem to get my sound going hehe.. Dam sound
> > > >it built onto the Mobo it is ESS and SB compatible but
> > > >still does not seem to work.
> > > >
> > > >Anyway and help would be great. Thanks!
> > > >
> > > >Stephen
> > > >
> > >
> > >
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