[ale] need working dialup

[William Bagwell]

On Monday 20 December 2004 12:03 am, Mark Wright wrote:
> Right now since everyone I have talked to has had dial up working in
> the past (with older distros) I am thinking about installing mandrake
> 9.2 or earlier to see if there is something to do with the 2.6 kernel
> that doesn't like Earthlink or US Robotics 56 modems.

Must be Earthlink, it does work with Mandrake 10.1 and a 2.6 kernel. 
(2.6.8.1-12mdk) Just shut down Smoothwall, reconnected directly (serial) to 
the working USR external and installed KPPP. All configuration done 
manually within KPPP (No wizards or command line) Account name and dial up 
number on the accounts tab, user name and password in connect box. From 
previous experience all other settings were left in the default setting 
except one.

It defaulted to /dev/ttyS1 and a query (within KPPP) showed empty fields, so 
I next  tried /dev/ttyS0 and query showed strings. (Got lucky, has taken 
more than one try in the past) Tried to connect and after a very long wait 
it failed. Second try and again an extra long (30 seconds) time to even 
initialize then it connected normally.

Have seen similar first time failures and should have tried resetting the 
modem and connecting several more times, but I'm lazy and was in a hurry to 
get the network back up;-)
-- 
William