Thank you Christopher, Rest assured that you are acting as you should on this mailing list=2E It is= a group effort to solve people's Linux problems=2E I will do as you advised (hopefully it will not disconnect) and I wish to as= sure you that with Mandrake 9=2E0 it is possible to connect to the internet=2E= I have the same modem as you and it did connect to the internet until I att= empted to upgrade to Mandrake 9=2E1rc2=2E I was told that Release Canidate 2= was the going to be the stable version release but I found it to be buggy=2E= So I tried to put 9=2E0 back on but it will not connect to the web (which i= s really making me MAD=2E :-)Mike(-: ----- Original Message ----- From: Christopher Bardin Sent: 3/27/2003 10:46:58 PM To: plug-discuss@lists=2Eplug=2Ephoenix=2Eaz=2Eus Subject: Re: Modem Problems Pardon the HTML=2E This is for Michael Havens: Hi=2E My name is Chris and I'm a Windows-holic=2E It started so ly=2E My first computer, an HP, came with Windows Me preinsta= lled=2E All I had to do was turn it on and soon I was pointing and clicking= all over the internet=2E I learned about Google and Yahoo and the joy of e= -mail=2E I began to download=2E For a while life was good=2E Then my comp= uter crashed=2E And crashed again=2E Files disappeared=2E I hit rock bott= om when I had to reinstall my OS=2E I began to think that there must be more to life than trying to get my compu= ter to work reliably=2E I had bought a certain bare-bones computer from Fry= 's, an FIC Sabre, because it was very quiet and small, unlike the HP which s= ounded a lot like a cheap vacuum cleaner (I finally quieted down the HP by r= eplacing its 12 volt case fan with a 24 volt fan=2E) The Sabre had a proble= m which prevented any OS installation: it can't handle the 512 MB of RAM it = said it could=2E I didn't discover the cause of, and cure for, the Sabre's = problem until after I had bought Windows 2000 Pro to try to install in it=2E= I began to read about other operating systems and decided to give Linux a = try=2E I bought Mandrake 8=2E1 PowerPack and installed it in my Windows 200= 0 Pro computer last March or so=2E I have had no problems dual booting the = two operating systems in spite of the fact that everything I read said it wo= uld be way tricky to do=2E I just stuck the Mandrake CD in and sat back=2E = During the installation LILO automagically replaced the Windows boot progra= m without a hitch=2E I only needed to tell Mandrake not to bother the exist= ing partitions during the installation, and then I had to find the GUI and c= onfigure LILO to my liking after I restarted the computer and Linux loaded b= y default=2E But I haven't been able to kick Windows cold turkey because I can't get onli= ne in Linux=2E In fact you could say I've fallen off the Linux wagon, since= I never use Linux for anything because I can't get online=2E I bought a ha= rdware based internal PCI modem, a U=2ES=2E Robotics/3Com 5610B, because it = was the only modem I found at the time in Fry's which said on the box that i= t would work with Linux=2E It didn't, at least not for me, but since it wor= ked fine in W2KPro I knew that the problem wasn't in the modem=2E When I tr= ied the Harddrake wizard it thought the modem was a Winmodem and wouldn't go= any further=2E With help from Mandrake: Here are the details about your incident: alans : 06:06 01:38 : Reply rece= ived=20 Try this in a console or console window as root=2E First, to find out the = pci address of the modem, type: lspci And then use that address (of the form= xx:xx=2Ex) to get verbose info by typing lspci -v -s Write down the io and IRQ being used then run setserial by typing: setseri= al /dev/ttyS4 port irq then verify that it sees a UART by typing: setserial = /dev/ttyS4 If it doesn\'t, you can guess that it\'s a regular 16550A UART, s= o then type: setserial /dev/ttyS4 uart 16550A=2E=20 This is the part that makes it work though: type: cd /dev then type: ln -s= f ttyS4 modem=2E Now set your kppp program to use /dev/modem and you should= be fine=2E -- Alan - MandrakeSoft Support Team :)=20 This got Linux to recognize the modem and even dial my ISP, but as soon as t= he two modems established a connection they disconnected=2E A friend who kn= ows Linux very well actually got my Yahoo home page to load, one time=2E He= couldn't figure out how he did it though, and was unable to do it again=2E = At least I know that it is possible to get online using my dial-up modem in= Linux After that I gave up trying to use Linux until Mandrake 9=2E0 came along=2E = I hoped that however it was different it might allow me to get online so I= asked a friend who had access to high-speed internet to download it for me= , but it didn't work either=2E In fact setserial seems to have disappeared = from 9=2E0, and I need it to make the modem work=2E I joined the PLUG discuss mailing list hoping to discover something that wil= l help me to get online in Linux=2E Forums and mailing lists are new to me = so maybe I'm not doing it right, but I find the PLUG mailing list a bit diff= icult to read=2E Most of the messages (posts?) seem to be in plain text, fu= ll of darts and carriage returns on my computer (Windows 2000 Pro; and I use= Yahoo for my mail, so I'm reading it in IE=2E) The one message that was in= HTML was fine=2E Again, I'm probably not doing something right, but what? Christopher Bardin