Re: Connecting to Internet

From: Circuit Breaker (bagboy6437_at_ship.aol.com)
Date: 06/22/04 

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 19:55:55 -0400

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:19:14 -0400, Thomas Johnson wrote:

> The connection wizard runs through its paces - finds a winmodem and a driver
> to go with it, loads it, and says everything is fine. But trying to
> connect, it sounds the regular beeps and static, then dials a number to
> connect with a recording, which is much too garbled to understand. (It
> sounds like a recorded message telling the caller to try again.) Have check
> the number - It works in XP.

Sounds to me like something similar to dialing rules; perhaps not dialing
a 9 to get out, or maybe there should/should not be a 1 or the area code
in the number dialed when there isn't/is one....
 
> The connection Wizard insists on offering only one driver and insists on
> using com 1 as the port. In XP, it uses a different driver and goes through
> com 3.

Linux has no "com" ports. They're tty. And COM3 in WinDOS would be ttyS2
in Linux.

> Even though Xandros finds the modem and dials, it does not connect to the
> Internet. Any ideas on how to solve the problem?
>
> Thanks for any advice.
>
> Thomas Johnson
> tjscribe@erols.com

What are you using to connect? KPPP? GnomePPP? WVDial? PPPD? Chat?

CJ 

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