setting up modem in FC3

[Tony Dietrich]

Silly question perhaps, but when you initiate the dialup, is the modem speaker 
on, and do you hear a brief dial-tone before the dialing commences?

If not, then the prime suspect is the cable between the modem and the 
telephone socket.

Tony

On Tuesday 11 Jan 2005 16:39, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Di, den 11.01.2005 schrieb Langer, Christian um 17:30:
> > I installed an external modem on my Dell Pc and the the modem was
> > recognized fine; but when I do the network setup, the modem dials the
> > number fine, and then several seconds of silence, and then redials. This
> > cycle repeats as long as you let it, but never connects  My isp password
> > and username are correct.  Could this be an isp problem, or am I missing
> > something?
> >
> > Chris Langer
>
> It would be helpful to see the corresponding syslog messages by pppd in
> /var/log/messages. Easiest way to observe the syslog is to run "tail -f
> /var/log/messages" in a terminal while in your case trying to dial in.
> You may activate "debug" and "kdebug=4" for the pppd to get more verbose
> output.
>
> Alexander

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