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Hello,
I'm a bit new to Linux in general, so please excuse what is likely to be
a simple matter to you all: for the life of me, I can't seem to get ppp
setup correctly (I'm writing this thru another OS- dual boot). I've read
everything I can get my hands on, follow the instuctions, but I still
come up empty. My kernal has ppp support. My modem is a p-n-p modem, and
I've got the specs on it and went to the maker, who gave me a driver for
it that should work under linux. It's a 536ep Intel, by Encore, and they
provide a driver that compiles OK, and everything seems to go OK. I run
pppsetup, answer the questions. I know my ISP's nameserver' IP, #, tone
dialing, and I know the modem is setting on COM3 under windows- which I
just used to connect now. This is /dev/tts2 with Linux? I get to the
"ppp-go" part, then the only message I get is 'Script Failed', and I
can't hear the modem like I usually do under the other OS.
I'm in the process of switching over from windows to Slackware and I
just don't have the room to dual boot 2 OS's, and don't really want to
either, but I must at least get ppp working first. I have pppd
installed, chat, dialoge- all the things that the HOWTO's and documents
say to get. So far I've had good luck with this, my first Linux install,
but now I think I've hit a wall... any ideas on what I could have
over-looked?
Thanks,
Jay

On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 06:13:18 -0400, jayjwa wrote:

> I've got the specs on it and went to the maker, who gave me a driver for
> it that should work under linux. It's a 536ep Intel, by Encore, and they
> provide a driver that compiles OK, and everything seems to go OK. I run
> pppsetup, answer the questions. I know my ISP's nameserver' IP, #, tone
> dialing, and I know the modem is setting on COM3 under windows- which I
> just used to connect now. This is /dev/tts2 with Linux? I get to the

/dev/tts is NOT (AFAIK) a device, commports are /dev/ttySx.

I have heard of this modem and know it works, all i can do is point you
here;

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/75204

If that is not enough then use google.com/linux and use 536ep as the
search word.

--
If the Linux community is a bunch of theives because they
try to imitate windows programs, then the Windows community
is built on organized crime.

Regards Richard
pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl
http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/

jayjwa wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm a bit new to Linux in general, so please excuse what is likely to be
> a simple matter to you all: for the life of me, I can't seem to get ppp
> setup correctly (I'm writing this thru another OS- dual boot). I've read
> everything I can get my hands on, follow the instuctions, but I still
> come up empty. My kernal has ppp support. My modem is a p-n-p modem, and
> I've got the specs on it and went to the maker, who gave me a driver for
> it that should work under linux. It's a 536ep Intel, by Encore, and they
> provide a driver that compiles OK, and everything seems to go OK. I run

Do you have these modules loaded:

$ /sbin/lsmod

536ep 5152 0 (unused)
536epcore 687552 0 [536ep]

Also is the hamregistry running:

$ ps ax | grep hamregistry

122 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/hamregistry

If you have these then the modem device is:

/dev/536ep

I then link this device to /dev/modem

ln -s /dev/536ep /dev/modem

Then just run pppsetup and select /dev/modem as your modem device. I
have this exact modem running fine on my server with DoD. Works a
treat(for dialup).

I went to the intel website for the drivers:

http://developer.intel.com/design/mo...rt/drivers.htm

Quark wrote:

>
> Do you have these modules loaded:
>
> $ /sbin/lsmod
>
> 536ep 5152 0 (unused)
> 536epcore 687552 0 [536ep]
>
> Also is the hamregistry running:
>
> $ ps ax | grep hamregistry
>
> 122 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/hamregistry
>
> If you have these then the modem device is:
>
> /dev/536ep
>
> I then link this device to /dev/modem
>
> ln -s /dev/536ep /dev/modem
>
> Then just run pppsetup and select /dev/modem as your modem device. I
> have this exact modem running fine on my server with DoD. Works a
> treat(for dialup).
>
> I went to the intel website for the drivers:
>
> http://developer.intel.com/design/mo...rt/drivers.htm
>
>

Yes! This looks very familiar... I'll copy this message to text, then
boot into linux and try this out. I didn't fully grasp the meaning of
the hamregisry. If I remember the messages correctly (it's hard to
recite what error messages I got, short of hand writing everything,
since I'm writing this from windows and the trouble's in linux..) there
may have been a problem with the hamregistry. I'll go look now and write
down exactly what it says.

-Jay

Thanks!!! I think I've got it now, since I'm viewing this from Lynx, in Linux.
I don't know how the formatting will come out because this is the first
time that I've used Lynx too. ( I haven't downloaded any other brower yet
as I wanted to get ppp working first. The web looks funny without the
pictures.
The main trouble was that I was using a driver that someone had directed
me to on the web, one similar to Intel 536ep but not the exact same. Once
I installed it and followed all the directions to the tee it work, no problem
first time. The ppp connection script was even right the first time around.
Thanks again, now I can free up my other HD partition of windows and turn
it over to Linux!
-Jay