From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 11 14:25:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA03699 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 14:25:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mercury.jorsm.com (mercury.jorsm.com [207.112.128.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA03671 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 14:24:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jer@jorsm.com) Received: from localhost (jer@localhost) by mercury.jorsm.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA06245; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 16:24:48 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 16:24:47 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeremy Shaffner To: MALCOLM BOFF cc: freebsd-questions , Brian Somers Subject: Re: PPP, cu and US Robotics 14,400 Sporster FAX Modem In-Reply-To: <199806110851_MC2-3FE3-1990@compuserve.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In addition to Thomas Dean's suggestions, have you tried simply resetting the modem? AT OK ATZ OK AT&F1 OK AT&W OK ATDTxxxxxxx -===================================================================- Jeremy Shaffner JORSM Internet Senior Technical Support Northwest Indiana's Premium jer@jorsm.com Internet Service Provider support@jorsm.com http://www.jorsm.com -===================================================================- On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, MALCOLM BOFF wrote: > I have spent many hours trying to connect to my ISP without success. I > became > convinced that there must have been a problem with 2.2.2-RELEASE so I > reluctantly upgraded to 2.2.6-RELEASE. The problem is still the same !! > > On Brian's advice I stopped trying to make PPP work in order to try > something > simpler ie 'cu'. to see what was happening ... > > cu -l /dev/cuaa0 -s 38400 (also tried next higher speed up) > Connected > atdt(ISP Phone number) > > The response is a long line of hieraglyphics with no meaning that I can > deduce > looking at the output in hex. > I get exactly the same with PPP. > > I am looking for anyone using a 'US Robotics Sportster 14400 FAX Modem' > to see a) if they can PPP and b) if so do they use any particular Hayes > codes > or c) advise on how to check this out. > > All help welcome ... > > Malcolm G. Boff > Sylmex Ltd > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message