[SWLUG] re: kppp, HSP56 Micromodem and Freeserve

[Dick Bain]

pbhj - hotmail wrote:
> Hey all,
>  
> 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).
>  
> 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 
> ....
>  
> It's a mystery to me.
>  
> What [hardware?] modems are you all using (or do you have broadband?) 
> ... I've been told no-one makes true internal _hardware_ modems anymore?

Paul
I use freeserve anytime and kppp with two phone numbers which are tried 
consequtively and it just works on my standard installation of Mandrake 9.1.
I have an external serial modem so I can't say anything about PCI thingies.
Dick