I told my boss it's easy to use Linux as an ISDN modem/router/gateway/firewall. After days of telling him this, he finally let me go ahead and set it up, and I've been unable to do it.
I've been trying to setup a USR Courier I-Modem (internal) on a debian 2.0 machine. I've found many verbose web pages telling me how to get all sorts of ISDN modems working, but not modems that behave like "normal" modems, and definitely not USR Couriers. Since I can talk directly to the modem with minicom and I can set the ISDN-specific parameters that way, I figure I don't need an ISDN driver. I am even able to get a CONNECT 64000 when I tell the thing to dial, but if I tell pppd to take over it (pppd) gets a SIGHUP eventually. When I manually dial, I can't detect any data flow, just the connection. So here are my actuall questions: 1) What's the Debian/Linux way to research this kind of problem? 2) Is my assumption that I can treat this device like a normal modem correct? 3) I noticed while messing with this modem that it seems to handle PPP onboard. If this is the case, do I need a custom pppd to account for this (ipppd?), or do I need to turn this feature off, somehow? Help help! Robert de Forest P.S. I'm only subscribed to debian-user-digets, so please CC me in your responses. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
