Re: How to setup USR 56k Faxmodem?

[Pedro Quaresma de Almeida <quaresma@mat.uc.pt>]

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>How can I get my US Robotics 56k faxmodem to work with Debian 2.1? Please
>provide me with the steps I need to follow. Thanks.
>

I have bought a US Robotics 56k faxmodem yesterday, I plug it into the
power source, I connected it to COM1 and thats it! :) I am using it to
connect to my University computer in order to read the mail...

$ pon        (pppd on)
$ telnet ... (or other net-commands)
$ poff       (pppd off)

You must have.

i) A kernel with ppp support

$ dmesg
...
PPP: version 2.3.3 (demand dialling)
TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
PPP line discipline registered.
...

ii) Configure ppp

$ pppconfig

iii) Nothing more :)

    At\'e breve

Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Departamento de Matem\'atica, Faculdade de Ci\^encias e Tecnologia
Universidade de Coimbra
P-3000 COIMBRA, PORTUGAL
e-mail: quaresma@hilbert.mat.uc.pt
url: http://www.mat.uc.pt/~pedro/
phone: 351 39 791170