[no subject]

But back to your problem, Why are you using minicom and not your 
disto's default dialer?  Mini com is great for manually making a 
connection or trouble shooting but you should have "pon" and "pof" 
scripts that will dial up your ISP with wvdial, pass your logon 
credentials and set up a PPP session.  KDE has a nice wizard to config 
this through the GUI.   What are you trying to talk to?  I noticed 
after my modem had reached the LCP timeout threshold it would drop the 
line but the dialer wvdial or chat would still act like it was 
connected.  I had to manually hang up the modem or it would stay 
"connected" all night.

This is a link to a great write up on dial up networking.

<a  rel="nofollow" href="http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html";>http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html</a>


Mark


On Jan 4, 2005, at 4:07 PM, John Cole wrote:

&gt; Howdy all!
&gt;
&gt; I'm delving into dial-up and modems and linux!  I've installed a more 
&gt; recent
&gt; version of Minicom than was on the server system before.
&gt; (minicom-2.1-1-rh7.3.i386.rpm instead of minicom-1.83.1-8.i386.rpm)  I 
&gt; have
&gt; a USR 33.6 external modem connected to Com1 /dev/ttyS0.  When I turn 
&gt; on the
&gt; modem it has AA and CD lights already on and Minicom immediately 
&gt; things I'm
&gt; online.  I try having Minicom hangup and also +++ ATH0 but it doesn't 
&gt; seem
&gt; to do anything.  Anyone have any ideas?
&gt;
&gt; Btw, is there anything like the old &quot;Modem Doctor&quot; program for Linux 
&gt; instead
&gt; of DOS?
&gt;
&gt; Thanks,
&gt; John Cole, TICSA
&gt; FiLink
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