An interesting modem problem

From: Radomir Boskovic (bonex_at_eunet.yu)
Date: 11/15/03

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    Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 12:04:27 +0100

    I have recently installed SUSE 9.0 on my Compaq AP400 dual-processor
    workstation. It works perfectly and very fast, actualy faster then some
    Windows applications. It also recognizes my Intel HAM modem, which is very
    good indeed.

    The problem is that I cannot connect to Internet at all, because the modem
    will not wait long enough for connectin to establish. Somehow, after a
    cpuple of seccond Kinternet exits with "script timed out message". No
    fiddling with any dial-up parameters gives any differences.
    However, when I enter safe mode on startup, everything is back to normal,
    dial-up as well.

    I tried different internal and external modems with the same results.

    Thinking that it has something to do with Suse, I tried Mandrake 9.1 with
    absolutely the same results. Seems to me that smp support in kernel is
    making trouble, but when I try to switch it off during boot, the machine
    won't boot - iz waits for my SCSI controlwer indefinitelly.

    Does anyone has any idea of what should be done to force the modem to wait
    all the 30-45 secconds for connection?

    Also, does anyone knows how to make Kinternet dial several access numbers if
    one dialing fails - through Yast one can only set a single dial-up number.
    Kppp is however OK.

    Any answer will be appreciated.

    Rade

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