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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hey all, </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Been lurking for a short time and also met some of
you at the Awareness Day (5'10", Goatee, was trying to get some Debian
disks).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anyway I've been trying to connect to Freeserve via
my HSP56 Micromodem ... anyone out there using Freeserve? (If not recommend a
new host and also some suggestions for where to host a PHP/MySQL site [currently
looking at Lycos as it's free]). The modem seems alright I've used the linmodem
pages to track down the modules and force load them with "insmod -f
/path_to/pctel" and what-have-you -- needed (apparently) as the kernel is 2.6
and the drivers are for 2.4. The modem responds to ATI1, etc. (but doesn't give
any ouput via the modem info button of kppp). Variously, it attempts to connect
and then hangs with a "no carrier" error OR locks up and forces a hard reset OR
fails to even dial ....</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It's a mystery to me.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What [hardware?] modems are you all using (or do
you have broadband?) ... I've been told no-one makes true internal _hardware_
modems anymore?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cheers</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Paul</FONT></DIV>
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