Modem troubles

[James Woodruff <jwoodruf ptld uswest net>]

I have been following the thread of messages regarding modem troubles with great interest
as I  have the same problem.  I have read the HOWTO's, checked the Linux/Alpha home pages
on the internet, opened a trouble report with Red Hat support, talked to Microway support, and
have tried every suggestion that has been offered to no avail.

Background info:
I recently upgraded from a 486DX2 with Red Hat 5.0/Windows 95 to a Microway Screamer 533-SX
with Red Hat 5.0/WIndows NT (each on their own Seagate hard drive) and MILO.  My modem is
an internal Hayes Accura 56 Kflex modem that worked with the Intel/Linux system and works
presently with WIndows NT.  The PNP feature on the modem has been disabled and the modem
optioned for COM2 and IRQ 3.

I have recomplied the kernel answering yes to CONFIG_SERIAL and CONFIG_PPP.

The following line appears in dmesg:
	Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled

I have linked /dev/modem to /dev/cua1
	lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  root  4 Feb 12 08:55 /dev/modem -> cua1

I have added the following to /etc/rc.d/rc.serial:
	/bin/setserial /dev/cua1 spd_vhi

/bin/setserial -a /dev/modem reports:
	/dev/modem, Line 1, UART;  16550A, Port: 0x02f8, IRQ: 3
		Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 5242, divisor: 0
		closing_wait: 52428, closing_wait2: infinte
		Flags: spd_vhi skip_test

I have set up ppp with the netcfg tool and have transferred over my ppp-on and ppp-on-dialer
scripts from my Intel system.

Problems:
When I start minicom (with the -s option), minicom launches then hangs during the initialization
of the modem phase.

When I try to start ppp it fails with a message of a script failure in my /var/log/message file.

/usr/sbin/statserial /dev/modem reports:
	Signal   Pin    Pin   Direction      Status   Full
	Name    (25)   (9)    (computer)                Name
	--------     ----    ----    ---------------    ---------   --------
	PG	1	-	-	     -	Frame Ground
	TXD	2	3	out	     -	Transmit Data
	RXD	3	2	in	     -	Receive Data
	RTS	4	7	out	     1	Request to Send
	CTS	5	8	in	     0	Clear to Send
	DSR	6	6	in	     0	Data Set Ready
	GND	7	5	-	     -	Signal Ground
	DCD	8	1	in	     0	Data Carrier Detect
	DTR     20	4	out	     1	Data Terminal Ready
	RI        22	9	in	     0	Ring Indicator
(then it hangs)

One last item.  When I launch seyon it recognizes the modem.  When I
manually dial a number it dials out and connects, but at that point I am unable to do any
thing and have exit and rm the lock file.

Sorry for the long message, but I wanted to be complete.  Thanks for advance for any
responses and help.