[H-GEN] Configuring Linux for Bigpond

[Robert Brockway]

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On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 PetJosCam at netscape.net wrote:

> I did some more digging and I probably should have thought of it earlier
> but does Linux support my modem?  It is a Conexant HSF V92 56K PCI
> Modem.  I found http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/modems.html which
> says that there is a good chance that it is a "winmodem".  Can anyone
> confirm or reject this as being the problem?

Some winmodems are now supported.  Even in those cases it may be necessary
to get & load the right kernel module.  If this is an internal modem then
this is likely the case.  This is one of the reasons I now prefer external
modems (no damn winmodem problems :)

Anyway, the easiest way to check is to make sure pppd is not running & try
to connect directly to the serial port with a terminal program like
minicom.  If you can connect to the serial port and get a response back
from "at" commands like atz and at&v then you have a working modem.  Btw,
atz should issue a reset to the modem & return OK, and at&v should dump
all the modem registers to the terminal.  If you are ok with these then
get the dialup number for BigPond and issue this command:

atxxxxxxxx where xxxxxxxx is the dialup number.  You should start dialing,
and get to the point where the remote pppd tries to negotiate with you.

Cheers,
	-Rob

-- Robert Brockway B.Sc. email: robert at timetraveller.org  ICQ: 104781119
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