i am a nooB running SUSE 9.2 professional. Kernel 2.6.8-24.11. My modem was diagnosed with scan modem as an hsf modem and i have downloaded the hsf driver from linmodems.org. The laptop sees the modem, and dials out. But i wait a bit, and get a no carrier message and then it redials. This telephone line is fine on my mac however, so i know there is a carrier!

Where do i go from here to figure out why it doesn't connect?

Thanx.
J>

Hi,
try adding the following in your /etc/wvdial.conf file:

Carrier Check = no



--cyberjun

i had already tried this....thankyou...
Here is the error message window from kppp.

SuSE Meta pppd (smpppd-ifcfg), Version 1.50 on linux.
Status is: disconnected
trying to connect to smpppd
connect to smpppd
Status is: disconnected
Status is: connecting
pppd[0]: Plugin passwordfd.so loaded.
pppd[0]: --> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.54.0
pppd[0]: --> Initializing modem.
pppd[0]: --> Sending: ATZ
pppd[0]: ATZ
pppd[0]: OK
pppd[0]: --> Sending: AT Q0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
pppd[0]: AT Q0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
pppd[0]: OK
pppd[0]: --> Sending: ATM1
pppd[0]: ATM1
pppd[0]: OK
pppd[0]: --> Modem initialized.
pppd[0]: --> Sending: ATDT6135600
pppd[0]: --> Waiting for carrier.
pppd[0]: ATDT6135600
pppd[0]: NO CARRIER
pppd[0]: --> No Carrier! Trying again.
pppd[0]: --> Sending: ATDT6135600
pppd[0]: --> Waiting for carrier.
pppd[0]: ATDT6135600

Hi,
Give it a shot with wvdial if you haven't already.


--cyberjun

not sure what you want me to do. I have poked around wdial...but i have no idea what else to do with it! *still a very newBEE i hate to admit!

thanx.

Dunno if will work for ya but try adding 'Stupid Mode = Yes' Its not really the problem you seem to be having but have seen a thread where someone else got it to work by adding that. Are you connecting through a pabx or anything?

i run wvdial in the terminal and i get no carrier.

i run kppp from the panel and i get no carrier.

i do have a couple of weird related observations. When i dialup from my mac, the modem will not dial out at all unless it has a dial tone. I find it odd that this modem automatically is dialing out without a dial tone. i have been troubleshooting this for a few weeks now, and i have sometimes attempted to dial in without the actual telephone cord plugged in, but yet the modem will dial out. Isn't that odd?> It is as tho it is dialing blind. If i do this on my macs, they will give me back a "no dial tone" message and not attempt to dial. When I plug in the phone cord, nothing changes at all. I get the same log from kppp, i get the same dialing every 300 seconds or so...(it will reattempt the dial since it doesn't connect). I wonder if the system is really communicating with the modem at all....?

also. a question for my knowledge purposes only.
i got a different init string from linuxant.org techs. I was instructed to change the wvdial.conf file. I did this successfully. and i used wvdial in a terminal and watched the messages as i dialed. It used my new config that i saved but also got no carrier. When i used kppp to dial, I noticed from the log that the changes I made in wvdial were not applied to kppp. Obviously these 2 are separate dialing programs ?? They don't communicate with each other? If this is true, where do i change the modem init string in kppp? I don't see anything in the GUI, is there terminal commands i have to do to achieve this change in kppp/>


Thanx, without questions, how will i ever learn??????? (or get this freakin modem to work??!!!)

J>