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I've installed Debian Sarge onto a machine using my high-speed internet connection. But the owner uses dial-up. I've been trying to connect to his account using kppp with no luck. It just says "Initializing modem..." forever.
I tried this:
echo atdt3333333 > /dev/ttyS1
and listened with a phone. It dials the number, but a recording says "I'm sorry, your call cannot go through. Please hang up and try your call again." Fair enough. I try it with numbers I know work (even my own number) and always get the same message. I listened in when kppp was "Initializing modem..." , and the recording came on with the same message again!
Another weird thing: it doesn't seem to matter what ttyS? I use. I can dial with the modem from ttyS0, ttyS1, ttyS2, ttyS6 even. I just always get the same recorded message. I've also tried pppconfig and pon/poff, but the pon command seems to have no effect.
I'm using kernel 2.6, an internal US Robotics 56.6 modem, and live in Canada. This computer used to connect just fine with Fedora Core 1. Any help at all is greatly appreciated!
I think that you are using a winmodem. All of your problems, except perhaps the multiple device name problem, could be caused by not having the modem driver installed or by using the wrong driver. Is there any way that you can check the name of the Debian modem driver against the name of the modem driver you used in FC1?
Oh-oh. It looks like you may be right. The model number is 3CP2976-OEM. US Robotics lists this under both the 'OEM' and 'winmodem' categories. USR has an rpm with the driver here
I have no idea how to find or change the driver Debian is using. Where do I go from here? Is there any way to get this thing working in Debian?
> Is there any way to get this thing working in Debian?
I don't think so, and even if there was, it probably wouldn't be worth your time.
Stop by any computer fix-it shop and buy a used modem from them. They've probably got boxes full of them that they've pulled out of derelict computer's they've stripped in the past.
download & use the ScanModem utility, follow instructions on this web page
view the output files it will create in a folder called " Modem " which will be in the directory where you dowloaded the ScanModem utility in
the ModemData.txt will tell you which driver you need & where to get it
for my Woody I found in their repositories a .deb file driver which was easily installed & configured with the dpkg command, it still works after I upgraded to Sarge
Last edited by Junior Hacker; 05-11-2005 at 08:44 PM.
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