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schotty · 02-21-2003, 03:59 PM

First off what tool are you using to connect? Kppp? In Kppp there is a terminal button, click on that and type:

ATZ
ATDT

And see if you get dial tone. Perhaps you may need to pick up a phone and listen to see if the modem is acutally doing anything to the line. It should click (loudly) and add background noise to the line if you hold the phone to your ear.

If you get no dial tone, then we need to see if your modem is configured correctly first off. Is this a winmodem, or a real hardware modem? IF it is a hardware modem, then life is made easy (all externals are hardware and work perfect under linux).

Let me go take a look somewhere. I recall hearing that for modem connections, there needs to be another group that that user is part of. I may be wrong ... lemme check first.

::edit::

Well I cant find that. Check your user groups to see if there is a modem or internet group. I could have sworn that I read that on the Linux board I frequent (LinuxJuniour.org).

Oh well. Plus knowing the modem that you have can be helpful the HSF Conexant chipset modems have a different /dev/ entry than normal modems ... etc .. etc ..

02-21-2003, 03:59 PM	#2 (permalink)
schotty RedHat's Manwhore Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Milwaukee Posts: 41	First off what tool are you using to connect? Kppp? In Kppp there is a terminal button, click on that and type: ATZ ATDT And see if you get dial tone. Perhaps you may need to pick up a phone and listen to see if the modem is acutally doing anything to the line. It should click (loudly) and add background noise to the line if you hold the phone to your ear. If you get no dial tone, then we need to see if your modem is configured correctly first off. Is this a winmodem, or a real hardware modem? IF it is a hardware modem, then life is made easy (all externals are hardware and work perfect under linux). Let me go take a look somewhere. I recall hearing that for modem connections, there needs to be another group that that user is part of. I may be wrong ... lemme check first. ::edit:: Well I cant find that. Check your user groups to see if there is a modem or internet group. I could have sworn that I read that on the Linux board I frequent (LinuxJuniour.org). Oh well. Plus knowing the modem that you have can be helpful the HSF Conexant chipset modems have a different /dev/ entry than normal modems ... etc .. etc ..