[KLUG Members] monitor modem connection

[Buist Justin]

Well.. it's been a while since I've fiddled with modems so I'm likely to be a little rusty, but this might get you started.

First, turn the sound on in your init string.  Appending M1L3 to the end of it should take care of this.  M1 meaning speaker is on, L3 puts the speaker to a nice high volume level.  L2 and L1 are also acceptable.  ie:  AT&F0M1L3 might be a good place to start.

Second, try 'minicom' for diagnostic info.  Fire up the program, config it to use the proper port and send it "AT" and smack enter.  If you get back an "OK" then you know at least you've got your port settings right.  Send in the AT&F0M1L3 hit enter.. then ATDT<your ips's number here> and see if you get a connection.  If you at least get a connect then you know your hardware is okay.  If pppd was already successfully handshaking with your ISP then skip everything I just said.

I always used 'pppsetup' in Slackware to setup PPP for me, and I don't know what tool you're using.. but about the only things you can screw up at this point are:

a)  wrong username
b)  wrong password
c)  wrong authentication scheme.

You've got two major authentication schemes for PPP ... PAP and CHAP.  Try PAP first, if that fails, try CHAP.  If both fail, double-check your username and password and try again.  If -that- fails you might want to put pppd into verbose/debug mode (forget how... sorry, maybe somebody else on the list will know) then check the appropriate log files (/var/log/messages probably) and report back any interesting information.

Justin Buist



> -----Original Message-----
> From: bill [mailto:bill@billtron.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 2:51 PM
> To: members@kalamazoolinux.org
> Subject: Re: [KLUG Members] monitor modem connection
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> external
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> Buist Justin wrote:
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> > First question... internal or external modem?
> >
> > Justin Buist
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: bill [mailto:bill@billtron.com]
> > > Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 2:32 PM
> > > To: members@kalamazoolinux.org
> > > Subject: [KLUG Members] monitor modem connection
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm having trouble getting a Linux computer to connect with a
> > > modem to an ISP.
> > > Is there any easy way to monitor what is going in and out 
> of the port
> > > (/dev/ttyS1 in this case)?
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > bill hollett
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