On Sat, Apr 11, 1998 at 01:16:52PM -0400, Jim Kannengieser wrote:
> Hi. I have a Best Data internal 33.6 internal modem in my computer that I
> would like to use under Red Hat 5.0. However, I haven't had any luck
> getting it to work under minicom or ppp. I checked the HOW-TO in the Linux
> Bible and that didn't help. Does anyone have experience with these modems?
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Jim
Well, first of all, make sure it IS NOT one of those stupid, braindamaged,
worthless, piece-of-junk WinModems (more like a L O S E modem, really).
Those things can be used ONLy with Windoze/95. Not even NT or MessyDOS
have drivers for those things, and they won't work without the right
(modem-specific) drivers.
Secondly, if it is a REAL modem, then it should be possible to at least
TALK to it with something such as minicom or kermit or seyon or whatever.
If you haven't yet read the "serial HOWTO" document, I suggest you do
that as your FIRST order of business.
Then, if following its guidelines doesn't help, post here details of
what serial port your modem is on, its IRQ, etc., and results of what
happens when you connect to that port with something like minicom
and send it:
ATZ
ATE1
AT
You should get back at least one instance of:
OK
But beware, there are lots of crappy modems out there which while not
Winmodems, aren't worth much either. I got stuck with two of those
things last summer. They both were nice high speed modems, supported
disabling Plug 'n Pray (which is good!), configurable IRQ, etc., etc.,
tolerably decent manuals but NO BRAND NAME. They both worked.... sort of.
You could dial with 'em, do a terminal connection, transfer data, but
they were unreliable, would drop connections at random, arbitrarily
garble data. Whenever I would dial INTO my Linux box it worked, but
once I logged off the modem could not be used again for either incoming
or outgoing use until someone killed the getty on that port. All those
problems did not appear with the previous modem, and since I got a
REAL modem (Microcom DeskPorte external) have not recurred since. So
beware.
Fred
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