Re: Motorola Modem Surfer

[Bill Schoolcraft <Bill wiliweld com>]

"Thomas E. Dodd /CSDC" wrote:
 
> What happens with this modem then?
> Does  pnp_serial find it?
> Is the serial port setup correctly?

	My response was in good spirits, nothing personal. But since we
are on the subject, in the event the "software" isn't responding
it's always been a rule of thumb to work your way down to the
_physical layer_ and see if there is a problem there.
	
	So many times I'll think it _couldn't_ be a piece of
hardware/cable/etc and it turns out to be something minor. 

	I have two Epson Stylus printers now. Wonder why? Well about 4
months ago I was in the middle of a perfect print job (from my
Linux box) and it stopped, just spit out binary so I rebooted to
my win95 partition thinking it was my ghostscript gone haywire,
same stuff.

	Having had this printer in the shop before, and it being a few
years old I just unplugged it, went to Office Max for the new
Epson which was on sale. Getting home I plugged all the stuff in,
opened all the packages, and when I set it all up, the same thing
on both platforms, Linux and win95...............

	I then went to my printer switch box, moved the switch a few
times from A to B, and all was well.

	CARBON BUILT UP ON THE SWITCHBOX.... now my fiancee has a free
printer.

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