Help with Connect with my 56kmodem

[elvilla]

I'm in trouble... i try to connect with my isp by 56k modem, the modem is Zoltrix Rainbow (there is no winmodem, is out of CPU), and linux recognise my modem, and try to establish the connection, but when it try to put the phone number it put the command and inmmediatly it receive ERROR, and it can't connect to the server...
I use Linux Mandrake 9.1, i try to connect with KPPP and WVDialer and i can't...

Please help, and sorry for my bad english...

[Steven E. Protter]

Your English is good enough for me to get some understanding of the problem.

The modem is detected and configured and when you dail you get an error. At that point you lose connectivity to the server.

What is the error, does it display on screen?

Is there a log message in the system logs?

Do you mean when you lose connectivity to the server that it drops off the network all services go down? If this is the case, you need to remove the modem, its probably malfunctioning.

SEP

[Stuart Browne]

I think he means that his modem throws him 'ERROR', and it stops trying to connect to his ISP.

Elvilla, if you use either 'minicom', or 'cu' (or some other terminal applicationw which can connect to a TTY) to access the modem directly, and issue AT commands (ATDT), does it dial correctly or does it through you an 'ERROR' as well?

I've seen a number of modems of which do strange things if an incorrect initialisation string is entered.

(if it's plugged in to COM1, 'chown uucp:uucp /dev/ttyS0;cu -lttyS0', use '~.' to exit, or use 'minicom -s', and change the device in the menu).

PS: I apologise if I got my pronowns backwards (his/her).