William A. Fain wrote:
> I have loaded Redhat 9 and my only problem is getting modem to initialize in
> KPPP. Is there a script I need to accomplish this. I see some listed but
> do not know the order to use them. Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
Is your modem one of the common, cheap "Winmodems" - those are designed
to work only under Windows, with the driver software doing most of the
work. Your best bet is to get a "hardware" modem, such as one with the
Lucent (or Agere) Venus chipset. Most Linux distros will recognize and
fire those up right away. With Redhat 9, I would upgrade to one of the
Fedora versions, or one of the Red Hat Enterprise clones such as CentOS
or White Box.

Bruce Coryell wrote:
> William A. Fain wrote:
>
>> I have loaded Redhat 9 and my only problem is getting modem to
>> initialize in KPPP. Is there a script I need to accomplish this. I
>> see some listed but do not know the order to use them. Any help would
>> be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
> Is your modem one of the common, cheap "Winmodems" - those are designed
> to work only under Windows, with the driver software doing most of the
> work. Your best bet is to get a "hardware" modem, such as one with the
> Lucent (or Agere) Venus chipset. Most Linux distros will recognize and
> fire those up right away. With Redhat 9, I would upgrade to one of the
> Fedora versions, or one of the Red Hat Enterprise clones such as CentOS
> or White Box.

Why not just get a real modem and be done with it. U.S.Robotics 5610B is a
real PCI modem. Also, it won't annoy your CPU when it is running.

And while one might run RHL9 in a system that is already up and running it,
why, oh why, install it fresh on a system? If it matters, get something like
RHEL 4 or CentOS 4.2, or White Box, or something if you want stability, or
Fedora Core (whatever it is up to) if you want bleeding edge? RHL9 was
discontinued a year or two ago.

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