[ale] Re: ppp dialup script / need working dialup

[Mark Wright]

If you recall the history to this problem no one would blame me for 
having a fire in the backyard to get rid of these two modems.  I would 
like to get these modems working but at the moment I am functioning on 
Earthlink and happy.

Maybe I'll order that O'Rielly PPP book and set  up a couple of test 
boxes to dial back and forth to so I can sort it out.  The problem sure 
did seem unique though.

Thanks again for your help,

Mark


On Dec 26, 2004, at 11:40 PM, Dow Hurst wrote:

> Ahhhh!  Disregard my reply then since I hadn't seen this post yet.  
> Great news!  You might check the DIP switches on the US Robotics modem 
> and set it to default values if it isn't.
> Dow
>
>
> Mark Wright wrote:
>
>> Hi Dave,
>>
>> I think your advice was right on but I could not get that command 
>> sent to the modem during init.  Every time I included it in the init 
>> string the modem failed to dial.  So I got desperate and dug around 
>> in the basement till I found a Microcom 28.8 modem.  I swapped it out 
>> and guess what?  It works!  Slow as molasses but it works!
>>
>> Dow, I imagine you had me on the right track too.  The US Robotics 
>> modem was not connecting right and my authorization was never 
>> occurring.  I did not have the data to see that the US Robotics and 
>> whatever Earthlink has were just not getting along.
>>
>> I'll post a solution to the other email thread so it will be easy to 
>> follow for anyone needing a solution like this from the archives.
>>
>> Thanks to all again for the help,
>>
>> Merry Christmas!
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> On Dec 25, 2004, at 6:23 PM, deritchie at earthlink.net wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Assuming that this a Sportster, try connecting to the port and 
>>> sending an AT&B1 to fix the DTE
>>> speed on the RS-232 port.
>>>
>>> -- Dave
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Mark Wright <mpwright at speedfactory.net>
>>> Sent: Dec 23, 2004 6:13 PM
>>> To: deritchie at earthlink.net
>>> Subject: Re: ppp dialup script
>>>
>>> Hi Dave,
>>>
>>> The modem is a US Robotics 56K faxmodem.  I have two of them and have
>>> swapped them around with no differing results.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>>
>>> On Dec 23, 2004, at 4:54 PM, deritchie at earthlink.net wrote:
>>>
>>>> Mark,
>>>>
>>>>    one other thing.. what kind of modem are you using to make this
>>>> connection to your ISP? If I can
>>>> see a manual I can look to see what is on line... but this 
>>>> definitely
>>>> looks like a speed mismatch problem -
>>>> the characters after the chat are probably 'login:" as some strange
>>>> speed.....
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Dave Ritchie
>>>> 770-303-6776 w
>>>> 404-483-0762 c
>>>> 770-565-5297 h
>>>>
>>>> deritchie@(earthlink.net|yahoo.com)
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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