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I finally went out and bought an external modem. Suse recognizes it and
all seems good. How do I get online? I start Konquerer, but nothing
happens. I am still suspecting I bought a winmodem. Is there any dial
program to see if my modem works under linux? Just for curio, I plugged
the modem into my laptop, and am sending this message from win xp, so
the modem works. Please help.s

stormyk88@gmail.com wrote:
> I finally went out and bought an external modem. Suse recognizes it
and
> all seems good. How do I get online? I start Konquerer, but nothing
> happens. I am still suspecting I bought a winmodem. Is there any dial
> program to see if my modem works under linux? Just for curio, I
plugged
> the modem into my laptop, and am sending this message from win xp, so
> the modem works. Please help.s
**
You probably have the kde tool kppp to dial the modem.

Walt R.
**

On 18 Apr 2005 23:26:36 -0700, stormyk88@gmail.com
<stormyk88@gmail.com> wrote:
> I finally went out and bought an external modem. Suse recognizes it and
> all seems good. How do I get online? I start Konquerer, but nothing
> happens. I am still suspecting I bought a winmodem. Is there any dial
> program to see if my modem works under linux? Just for curio, I plugged
> the modem into my laptop, and am sending this message from win xp, so
> the modem works. Please help.s
>
Is the modem connected via RS232 or USB? A USB modem could be a
winmodem. As someone else suggested, try kppp to set up the modem.


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In article <1113891996.914889.128570@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups .com>,
stormyk88@gmail.com wrote:

>I finally went out and bought an external modem.

What kind? RS-232 (classic serial) or USB?

>Suse recognizes it and all seems good. How do I get online?

SuSE has at least one tool, your desktop probably has two more, and the
fallback position is YAST.

>I start Konquerer, but nothing happens.

Well, yeah - this isn't windoze, and applications like web browsers make
use of existing network connections. This means you have to set up the
network connection before a web app can use it.

>I am still suspecting I bought a winmodem. Is there any dial
>program to see if my modem works under linux?

http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html
http://www.theory.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html


You can also use something like minicom or seyon to test if you can talk
to the modem, but neither of them is useful in connecting to an ISP. Very
few ISPs have working shell servers (meaning that you would be looking for
some old "Login:" prompt. Assuming your modem is connected to the first
serial port on the motherboard, something like this would be used:

[compton ~]$ cat /usr/local/bin/dialin
#!/bin/bash
exec /usr/sbin/pppd connect "/usr/sbin/chat -f /etc/ppp/dialscript" \
defaultroute lock noipdefault modem nodetach /dev/ttyS0 115200 crtscts \
user stormyk88
[compton ~]$

There must not be anything after the \ in those two lines.

[compton ~]$ cat /etc/ppp/dialscript
ABORT BUSY ABORT 'NO CARRIER' "" AT&F1 OK ATDT2662902 CONNECT \d\c
[compton ~]$

You also need /etc/ppp/pap-secrets (and/or /etc/ppp/chap-secrets) set with
your username and password in the form

stormyk88 * p42Sw0rD~

and the appropriate nameservers listed in /etc/resolv.conf. In the script
above, you'd need to correct the username as required (as well as the secrets
file), and put the correct modem init string (AT&F1 is for a USR, most others
use AT&F0) and phone number.

>Just for curio, I plugged the modem into my laptop, and am sending this
>message from win xp, so the modem works.

Yes, but is it an old RS-232 modem or USB? The later adds some complications.

Old guy