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Mark Wright wrote:
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&gt; Hi all,
&gt; 
&gt; 
&gt; I am exasperated. (ooh I even spelled it right)
&gt; 
&gt; I have been trying for three months in my spare time to set up a nice 
&gt; little Linux box for my mom.  She badly needs a replacement for here 
&gt; Apple IIsi.  She is on dial up.  I am a computer professional.  Whatever 
&gt; that means.  I have been repairing Mainframes since 85.  I used dial up 
&gt; back when every modem command and network option had to be entered by 
&gt; hand on whatever tty device we were lucky enough to have.  So why can't 
&gt; I get a Linux distro to connect to Earthlink?
&gt; 
&gt; I have tried FC2, Mandrake 9.2, and 10.0, Knoppix 2.0, Linspire 4.5, and 
&gt; Ubuntu.  I have two identical US robotics 56K modems that work fine on 
&gt; any machine.  One of them was working on an OS2 box only a few months ago.
&gt; 
&gt; FC2 had a strange issue with the modem that I corrected via a tip I 
&gt; found online.  All the others auto sense the modem and dial it correctly 
&gt; without help.  I get to the same place with al the different distos.
&gt; 
&gt;  From /var/log/message on Ubuntu:
&gt; 
&gt; chat [24230]: send (ATST6782454201)
&gt; chat [24230]:  expect (connect)
&gt; chat [24230]:  ^M
&gt; chat [24230]:  CONNECT
&gt; chat [24230]:  - - got it
&gt; chat [24230]:  send  (/d)
&gt; pppd [24227]:  Serial connection established
&gt; pppd [24227]:  Using interface ppp0
&gt; pppd [24227]:  Connect :  ppp0  &lt;--&gt; /dev/ttyS0
&gt; pppd [24227]:  LCP:  timeout sending config-Requests
&gt; pppd [24227]:  Connection terminated
&gt; pppd [24227]:  Hangup  (SIGHUP)
&gt; pppd [24227]:  Exit .
&gt; 
&gt; 
&gt; 
&gt; I have printed a three inch notebook full of HOW-TO's from the 
&gt; internet.  I have followed many rabbit trails.  I have read ppp set up 
&gt; instructions from 1996 but I have no answers.  I have tried to set up my 
&gt; Speedfactory account with a local dial up number to verify that it is 
&gt; not Earhtlink being funny.
&gt; 
&gt; Is any one using a Linux machine with a modem.   I am willing to buy an 
&gt; internal or another external or really anything that will make it work.
&gt; 
&gt; I have looked at every file associated with communication for config and 
&gt; privileges but will gladly go over anything again.  If you have a 
&gt; working configuration I would love to compare.  Sorry this is so long 
&gt; but I am only scratching the surface.
&gt; 
&gt; Any ideas?
&gt; Thanks,
&gt; 
&gt; Mark Wright
&gt; 
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