Calling Mandrake 7.2 pros again...

[Monel Funkawitz]

I have everything up and running now, all except the networking. I tried to setup my info for my dial-up, and when I hit enter, it waits a few moments, then says "System not connected to internet" or something dumb like that.

I have a USRobotics Internal 56K voice modem. Everything seems to be detected fine. I can run business as usual in Windows, just LM 7.2 has a problem somewhere.

Since I do not hear dial-tones, or even the relay click, my guess is Mandrake is not even getting to the modem yet, so somewhere before modem initilization is the prob.

I am going to check newsgroups now for ideas. Anyone have a guess?

 

[Monel Funkawitz]

Checking LinuxNewbie.Org forums, and reading Sensei's article editorial, this seems to be a common problem.

"7. Modem will not dial out, despite being found and sort-of identified. ( LED's registered being found)."

Same prob. 🙁

 

[Monel Funkawitz]

No one?

 

[SUOrangeman]

We're all on broadband, Monel 😎

-SUO

 

[Wallysaurus]

Firdt of all, is it ISA or PCI? If it's PCI, it's probably not supported. If it's ISA, try setting the jumpers on the modem to the com port and irq that your modem occupies. Here are the jumper settings for my USR ISA modem. Hope this helps.

 

[KidViciou$]

has it been detected? is there a chance its a winmodem?

edit: its been a while since ive used modems, and i HATE troubleshooting them 😛, gotta love cable 😀

 

[Monel Funkawitz]

Well, no luck yet. It is an ISA PNP modem, so it is not a Winmodem. Linux detects it correctly, but it just will not work. Gonna go tinker around some more....