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robotz · Joined: 20 Oct 2010 Posts: 18

When I try to connect to the internet using my dial up modem I get the following:

--> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.53
--> Initializing modem.
--> Sending: ATZ
--> Sending: ATQ0
--> Re-Sending: ATZ
--> Modem not responding.

My modem works fine with WindowsXP. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

RetroTechGuy · Joined: 15 Dec 2009 Posts: 2628 Location: USA

robotz · Joined: 20 Oct 2010 Posts: 18

Agrere Systems PCI-SV92PP Soft Modem on C

robotz · Joined: 20 Oct 2010 Posts: 18

According to the control panel I have an Agrere Systems PCI-SV92PP Soft Modem on COM3. I just downloaded the iso file from the front page yesterday so I have the current version booting from CD. I have not looked at the alternative versions you posted but I am doing that now. Sorry if this is a double or triple post.

robotz · Joined: 20 Oct 2010 Posts: 18

Okay I have looked at the links you posted but there doesn't seem to be any text files to tell me what is what so I wouldn't know which distro to try. Any suggestions?

RetroTechGuy · Joined: 15 Dec 2009 Posts: 2628 Location: USA

robotz · Joined: 20 Oct 2010 Posts: 18

Wow, thanks for all the hard work you have put in for me.

My machine is a desktop.

I will try the links you gave and download the iso you suggested but I will wait to see if anyone comes up with any other suggestions before I invest the time to download it (56k modem ~10 hours). Thanks again!

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 5339 Location: Kentucky

If you're using the latest, Lucid Puppy......... it doesn't really support winmodems.
This thread may be of interest to you:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=442776#442776

Believe you're going to need a Puppy with an older kernel.

robotz · Joined: 20 Oct 2010 Posts: 18

Okay great, I will try Puppy 4.3.1 and let you know how it goes. Thanks to the both of you!

RetroTechGuy · Joined: 15 Dec 2009 Posts: 2628 Location: USA

robotz · Joined: 20 Oct 2010 Posts: 18

Okay, I'm embarassed. Turns out I was using 4.3.1 all along and I just spent 12 hrs downloading it again.

My machine isn't too old, I bought it in the vista era although I had XP installed instead.

Any suggestions for what version to try next? I can't afford too many tries because my IP will charge me when I go over time limits.

Would it be possible to just borrow modem drivers from a different version, and if so how would I go about it?

robotz · Joined: 20 Oct 2010 Posts: 18

Okay I'm now following this discussion over here http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=57290&start=60 to see how things turn out.

RetroTechGuy · Joined: 15 Dec 2009 Posts: 2628 Location: USA

rerwin · Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 1449 Location: Maine, USA

robotz,
Your modem sounds like the kind that the latest wary (0.9.6) can handle. The AGERE modem may need the agrsm/agrmodem driver, which has 3 variants. Wary is the first puppy to support all of them.

But there is an alternative. I developed the 3-variant support on a 4.3.1 puppy, so we could try that along with the driver packages instead of your downloading all of wary. I see from the following list:

Frank Cox · Joined: 01 Nov 2009 Posts: 381

Hi Robotz:

If you have a desktop save your self endless grief and buy a serial/hardware modem. They give you a much more more reliable and somewhat faster connection while freeing up system resources at the same time. Not only that but it will work with ANY linux distro no matter what!

I bought a brand new USRobotics modem the other day for 20.00 and that included the USB to serial adapter . Look under hardware for my post on incredible modem buy. Not long ago the cheapest external serial modem from USRobotics, the best in the biz my opinion , was close to $80.00.
I should not tell you this but I got the agere modem in my Tablet PC to work by installing Wary 060. It might work on the retro 431 but take it from someone whose first experience with Linux was setting up dialup on Ubuntu 9.04 and puppy 431 , I spent countless hours to tackle a program that 20.00 bucks solved in 5 .

I made it work, I even found a Dell Ubuntu modem driver for a machine they once offered with Linux for free, I had already paid, and wasted 20.00 on a linmodem driver I never did get to work. But when I bought an antique USRobotics 33.6 faxmodem and flashed the chip to v.92 56l down , 48k up I stomped up and down on the winmodem.

Buy the serial modem, plug it in, open pupdial be happy! . For windows run the disk and for most other distros including Ubuntu download gnome-PPP which is used like pupdial .