From: Alister Waller (Awaller at domain Staffmail.wit.ie)
Date: Tue 18 May 1999 - 12:33:08 IST
I had the same problem with a modem that I wa slooking at for a
staff member. I set the modem up here and all worked fine, she
took it home and it didn't work. I called round and looked at it for
her again and couldn't get it to work. There was a dial tone on the
phone line so I thought it was OK.
After several attempts I checked the wiring and found that it was
dodgy. I would have done this sooner but it meant moving
everything to another room.
works fine now
alister
Date sent: Fri, 14 May 1999 15:18:00 +0100
From: chekov <chekov at domain indigo.ie>
To: Eoin Phillips <eoinp at domain netsoc.ucd.ie>
Copies to: ilug at domain linux.ie
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Misc probs (modem, building kernel 2.2.2)
> Hi Eoin,
>
> I have the misfortune to also have a Euroviva 33.6 SP PNP modem. It
> took me
> about three days to install it under Linux (Suse 6.0),
> during which I tried literaly everything init strings, recompiling the
> kernel many
> times, pnpdump, downloading new drivers etc...The symptoms of my problem
> were
> that whenever I attempted to dial out I'd hear a click and the modem
> would hang
> and the line would remain dead until I took the
> phoneline out of the back of the box (although in my case the modem
> didn't work under
> windows either). I had ruled out the possibility of it being a phone
> line problem
> since a USR 33.6 external modem worked without a problem in both Linux
> and windows.
>
> Anyway I was on the point of returning the modem when I decided to
> exhaust the last
> possibility, I attached the modem directly to the main telephone line
> coming into the
> house and unwired all the other lines going off it, guess what, it
> worked! So I basically
> rewired the phone lines in the house and the modem has worked fine
> since. A couple of
> days ago I moved into a new office and got TE to install a new phone
> line especially for
> my modem, guess what, the modem hangs this line every time! (good old
> TE). I surmise that this particular modem is very sensitive to line
> quality (i.e. its a dodgy make).
>
> So basically I'd try to plug it into a different phone socket or to try
> it in a
> different building, if this doesn't work return it, its probably
> banjaxed.
>
> Chekov Feeney
>
> Eoin Phillips wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm trying to connect to the Internet through Linux, and having a few
> > problems. I've got a Euroviva 33.6 SP modem which works fine and dandy in
> > both Win 95 and NT4. It's PnP, so I played around with pnpdump to try to
> > get it recognised, but whathever settings I tried (even the ones that
> > worked in Windows) didn't seem to work. My method of testing was to run
> > minicom and dial into Indigo. I didn't get the modem picking up the line.
> >
> > Then I disabled PnP in the bios (used ICU I think), and tried again. This
> > time I had more success. When I tried dialling, nothing happened, but when
> > minicom exited (and reset the modem) there was a double click as it picked
> > up and hung up the line I suppose. Has anyone any ideas what I can do now?
> > I was thinking an init string might fix it, but I'm not sure what commands
> > would help here. Or maybe it's something more fundamentally wrong?
> >
> > I also thought I'd try the 2.2.2 kernel (off a PC Plus CD) because I'd
> > heard there was improved PnP support). I installed it into my source
> > directory, changed the 'linux' link to point to it, and went into the
> > directory to compile it as I had done with the installed 2.0.34 kernel
> > last night. I ran make menuconfig, chose the options I'd used before, ran
> > make clean, and make zImage. It came out with hundreds of warnings/errors
> > in 'init/main.c'
> > make:*** [init/main.o] Error 1
> >
> > I'm not sure what's wrong here (I've only successfully compiled the
> > previous kernel once). Do I need a more up-to-date compiler or library
> > files?
>
>
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