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Hi , I'm the person whose mail you'd replied to
regarding whether I'd have problems
with my mouse since it wasn't plugged in at the time of installing Linux... Anyway now, I'm having problems with my modem. As you advised me, I bought a 56k External modem. It's a Cardinal Connecta V.34. I plugged it into the serial 1 port of my PC. Since the mouse is in the mouse port, which I assume is ttyS0, I configured the modem for ttyS1. I answered all the questions as asked by pppconfig to the best of my knowledge. Then I quit the program having wrote all the files. At the command prompt, I ran 'pon provider' as I have just one ISP. I immediately got the next command prompt...so I did 'telnet' and it didn't work. Then I did 'ps' and it showed the following: PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 105 1 S 0.01 -bash 106 2 S 0.00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty2 107 3 S 0.00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3 108 4 S 0.00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4 109 5 S 0.00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5 110 6 S 0.00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty6 129 S1 S 0.00 /usr/sbin/ppd call provider 130 S1 S 0.00 /usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/provider 131 1 R 0.00 ps Then I entered 'poff' at the command line, and
then 'ps' again and this time the 7th
and 8th lines from above were not there. I dunno, should I have waited.....But I didn't here any 'screeching' sound from my modem..nor did I see any wild characters on my screen.. Could somebody out there please give me a step by step approch to how I should do things from the time I connect my modem thru' a 25 pin connector to the computer, connect the line from my telephone to the 'phone' input of my modem, connect the line supplied with my modem to the main telephone jack on one end and the 'line' input of the modem on the other till the time I can issue the command 'telnet 134.68.140.1' and can safely log on to my system at school... Here's my system's configuration:
486 ISA bus IDE controller 120 MB HD 16MB Ram I don't see if any of this will be of use, but
I've given it just incase. I wanted to buy a
56k internal, but many people advised me against it saying that it wouldn't work on my 486. So I bought a 33.6K internal modem..Do you think I should use an internal modem instead of the external one..My ISP provides 56k speed. Also my ISP provides PAP (I think ) since almost everyone who connects to it uses Windows 95 or higher. Also, the modem came with some installation floppies for Windows (but, then, what doesn't, nowadays??!), but this is not a Winmodem..at least it doesn't call itself that. Will I have to write some chatscript or something??? If possible, please explain things to me in as
much layman's language as you can...A
prompt reply would be tremendously appreciated. Thank you so much.
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