[ale] SUSE 9.2 dialup

[Geoffrey]

Joe Knapka wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I just spent about two hours trying to configure dialup
> on my friend's laptop, a Toshiba Satellite 1405 running
> SUSE 9.2. I got nowhere, and would appreciate any advice
> about how to proceed.

I just converted my mother-in-law from dialup to dsl.  She was on SuSE 
8.2 with dialup, and it was working fine.  I simply configured it as 
you've outlined.  The one thing that bothered me was that it would not 
dial on demand.  I had to select the kinternet icon, then it would dial 
on demand.  That's pretty much it.  If you're not getting connected, 
right click on the kinternet icon and select the logs option.  One of 
the problems I've had in the past is that I had to create a chat script 
for the connect.  That was not the case on my mom-in-law's though.  In 
summary, you click on the kinternet icon, (it changes color I believe), 
then open email client or browser and you'll hear the modem dial.

Sometimes the browser would load a 'not found' page, but if you hit 
reload, it would load fine.

> 
> I'm not even sure if I was going about this the right
> way. What I did was, I went into Yast and chose
> "Network devices->Modem", configured the internal
> modem (which was detected), set up a provider with
> appropriate phone number, user, and password, set
> the connection to dial-on-demand, set the modem speaker
> to "on", saved everything, and opened a browser.
> Nothing happened, except that the browser said
> "host mindspring.com not found".
> 
> I also tried starting the connection from kinternet,
> which didn't seem to work either. It wasn't totally
> obvious how to interpret the kinternet icon's
> state (plug with little "D", plug with red ring
> and little "D", plug with lightning bolt and
> little "D"), but I never heard the modem make
> a sound (which I would expect if the modem speaker
> was enabled). The kinternet log seemed to indicate
> a successful connection, but not even the server
> endpoint address for the ppp0 interface could be
> pinged.
> 
> Unfortunately, my friend didn't seem to have any
> of the standard talking-to-the-modem-by-hand tools
> (such as minicom) installed, so it was really hard
> to tell whether the modem had even been configured
> appropriately.
> 
> I also tried the same dance with a PCMCIA modem
> that I've used successfully under RH and Slack,
> but SUSE behaved exactly the same way: it seemed
> to see the modem, but getting it to actually
> use the modem was something of a mystery.
> 
> Any pointers?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- Joe Knapka
> 
> P.S. His kernel was also emitting
> {DriveReady SeekComplete Error} messages once
> per second or so. I told him that his hard drive
> is probably dying. Windows XP, of course, doesn't
> seem to notice any problem.
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Until later, Geoffrey