[ale] Need Advise

[Adrin]

Have you tried running it as root?

Run Kermit on it.
You just do the following.

1. su - root
2. Kermit  ( you may need to install it)

At the Kermit prompt you do the following next.

3. set line /dev/<Whatever it is>   ( You know sometimes
/dev/modem is just a symbolic link )

In some case you need to tell it what modem you have.
4. set modem USR   (in this case )
5. set carrier-watch off

After you have done set carrier-watch 0ff  you can talk
directly to the modem.
by just pressing c

Now you can do
6. at (or ) AT
You should get and OK back if the modem is set-up correctly
and you have the right port.

After all that you can pull out a modem book and take a look
at all the AT commands.  Have fun.
Does this remind anyone of BBS days?


Adrin


-----Original Message-----
From: phrostie [mailto:pfrostie at yahoo.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 9:18 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Need Advise


i think the most common problem that i've come across have
been with the
/dev/<name>  on some systems it's /dev/ttyS1 on others is is
/dev/modem on
some it was /dev/cua<something> .
whatever dialer you are using you need to make sure that it
is pointing at
your hardware correctly.

On Friday 24 May 2002 19:12, you wrote:
> Hi everyone, I'm new to the list, so forgive me if this is
not the correct
> forum for my question.  I'm a newbie to Linux, and
enjoying the freedom
> from Microsoft.
>
> I just installed Mandrake 8.1 in my old PC (Acer Aspire)
AMD K6, 233 Mhz,
> 128 RAM, 6 gig hard drive.  Everything is working great,
except for the
> modem (. . . it's not a Winmodem).  The entire machine is
running on Linux
> (Mandrake 8.1).  I took out entirely the previous OS,
Windows 98.
>
> I'm getting a "modem is busy" signal, every time.
>
> The phone line is working, and the modem is new.  The
modem is a U.S.
> Robotics 56K, PCI, V90/V92, internal, model 5610B.  It is
advertised as
> Linux compatible.
>
> So far I've tried the following:
>
> 1-checked the true address of the serial port by comparing
what I see with
> the command lspci and setserial. Both addresses are the
same.
>
> 2-Checked the IRQ, and it's the correct one
>
> 3-Checked BIOS and disabled plug-n-play.
>
> 4-re-installed Mandrake
>
> 5-moved the card to another PCI slot
>
> I'm running out of options, and would appreciate any
advise.
>
> Thanks,
>
> EN

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