56K MODEM

I have set up a 56K modem and use a driver from linmodems.org website.
After I opened the driver in Mandriva linux environment and setup all
things of KPPP, the dialup was not successful, showing the modem had no
response. Why? on the contrary, I dial up very often and successfully
in Microsoft Windows environment. Anyone can help me. Thanks.

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>I have set up a 56K modem and use a driver from linmodems.org website.
>After I opened the driver in Mandriva linux environment and setup all
>things of KPPP, the dialup was not successful, showing the modem had no
>response. Why? on the contrary, I dial up very often and successfully
>in Microsoft Windows environment. Anyone can help me. Thanks.

No idea. Not enough information. You have apparently a winmodem. These are
pieces of junk. Your driver from linmodems may be not working, or may not
be for your modem, you may have set up kppp wrongly, you may have forgotten
to plug the modem into the telephone line, etc. All are possible
explanations on the basis of what you have told us.

winmodems are sound cards, which software makes create the right beeps and
whistles to pretend to be a modem. Under Windows the manufacturer of your
modem wrote that software. That manufacturer not only refused to write the
equivalent software for Linux but refused to tell people who wanted to do
it for them how their soundcard actually worked. As you can imagine this
makes it hard to write the driver. Yell at the manufacturer., or better
yet, get a decent modem.

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> I have set up a 56K modem and use a driver from linmodems.org website.
> After I opened the driver in Mandriva linux environment and setup all
> things of KPPP, the dialup was not successful, showing the modem had no
> response. Why? on the contrary, I dial up very often and successfully
> in Microsoft Windows environment. Anyone can help me. Thanks.

I agree completely with Bill Unruh. That said, if you can post
exact copies of relevant log messages, including timestamps, then
someone *might* be able to help. Kppp is a dialing front end to pppd,
and saying "the dialup was not successful, showing the modem had no
response" isn't enough to tell exactly what causes the failure.

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Clifford Kite Email: "echo xvgr_yvahk-(E-Mail Removed)|rot13"

My 56K modem is Motorola sm56 model. I believe your opinion is right.
The driver in Windows is not suitable to Linux environment. Now I set
up a new operating system of Linux of Mandriva 2005 limited edition.
And I download a rpm driver of Mandrake 10.0 and I don't know if is
suitable to this edition? Well, after I put in ISP information to KPPP
and link to the lines,
hoping to move into the internet. But getting a message showing that
"The modem is ready", but then showing "There is no response of
Modem.".The matter is so, anyone can help me and I am very grateful.
Thanks a lot.

Clifford Kite wrote:
> (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> > I have set up a 56K modem and use a driver from linmodems.org website.
> > After I opened the driver in Mandriva linux environment and setup all
> > things of KPPP, the dialup was not successful, showing the modem had no
> > response. Why? on the contrary, I dial up very often and successfully
> > in Microsoft Windows environment. Anyone can help me. Thanks.
>
> I agree completely with Bill Unruh. That said, if you can post
> exact copies of relevant log messages, including timestamps, then
> someone *might* be able to help. Kppp is a dialing front end to pppd,
> and saying "the dialup was not successful, showing the modem had no
> response" isn't enough to tell exactly what causes the failure.
>
> --
> Clifford Kite Email: "echo xvgr_yvahk-(E-Mail Removed)|rot13"

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> My 56K modem is Motorola sm56 model. I believe your opinion is right.
> The driver in Windows is not suitable to Linux environment. Now I set
> up a new operating system of Linux of Mandriva 2005 limited edition.
> And I download a rpm driver of Mandrake 10.0 and I don't know if is
> suitable to this edition? Well, after I put in ISP information to
> KPPP and link to the lines, hoping to move into the internet. But
> getting a message showing that "The modem is ready", but then showing
> "There is no response of Modem.".The matter is so, anyone can help
> me and I am very grateful. Thanks a lot.

In the case of a software modem, I'd expect "no modem response" to
usually mean the software part of the software modem doesn't work -
even using kppp, which I've never done. But in some cases the serial
port may be mis-configured (does a software modem use a hardware
serial device?). The output of

setserial /dev/<modem_device_file>

may or may not be relevant (and sensible).

Anyway here's a link that might help if you can't get a Linux driver to
work (but no guarantee):

http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/0...iswrapper.html

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Clifford Kite Email: "echo xvgr_yvahk-(E-Mail Removed)|rot13"
/* Bluffing in a poker game can win big; bluffing in a newsgroup
only attracts sharks. */

No a software modem doesn't use a hardware serial port. I did use a Conexant
HSF modem a while back on Mandrake and it was a pig to get working, after
about 5 different drivers and just as many days it worked in the end!

"Clifford Kite" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>> My 56K modem is Motorola sm56 model. I believe your opinion is right.
>> The driver in Windows is not suitable to Linux environment. Now I set
>> up a new operating system of Linux of Mandriva 2005 limited edition.
>> And I download a rpm driver of Mandrake 10.0 and I don't know if is
>> suitable to this edition? Well, after I put in ISP information to
>> KPPP and link to the lines, hoping to move into the internet. But
>> getting a message showing that "The modem is ready", but then showing
>> "There is no response of Modem.".The matter is so, anyone can help
>> me and I am very grateful. Thanks a lot.
>
> In the case of a software modem, I'd expect "no modem response" to
> usually mean the software part of the software modem doesn't work -
> even using kppp, which I've never done. But in some cases the serial
> port may be mis-configured (does a software modem use a hardware
> serial device?). The output of
>
> setserial /dev/<modem_device_file>
>
> may or may not be relevant (and sensible).
>
> Anyway here's a link that might help if you can't get a Linux driver to
> work (but no guarantee):
>
> http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/0...iswrapper.html
>
> --
> Clifford Kite Email: "echo xvgr_yvahk-(E-Mail Removed)|rot13"
> /* Bluffing in a poker game can win big; bluffing in a newsgroup
> only attracts sharks. */