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>From: Robert Mullenax <address@hidden> >Organization: NMSU/NSBF >Keywords: 199910090421.WAA20232 internal modems on Solaris x86 Robert, Thanks for the information on how you setup your modem. It sounds like this is just what I need to do since my modem is pretty much the same as yours. I will give this one a try as soon as I have finished the upgrade of Linux to 6.0. After working in 6.0 on our laptop, I decided that I like it! The only thing that is stopping me is the fact that RedHat just released 6.1!! >A while back we talked about configuring Solaris bundled asppp >to work with an internal modem. I now have it working on our >family PC at home (did it tonight). I have a Gateway Pentium Pro 180 >with 160MB of RAM (preparing for McIDAS/GEMPAK). It has a Gateway >Telepath 33.6 modem which I believe is the same as a US Robotics. >It was originally PnP, but I set it to COM 1 when I went to NT from >Win 95 3 years ago. Solaris is on a second hard drive. COM 1 >is (obviously) disabled on the motherboard and Solaris did not >see the modem, so when the Configuration assistant was running I went >to Device Tasks and added a serial port on 3f8, IRQ4. After it booted >I ran admintool and changed ttya to be a 33840 dial out only modem. > >I then followed the setup procedures from the following: > >http://www.kempston.net/solaris/connectanyisp.html > >The following has a special gotcha for internal modems which >I followed. > >http://www.riddleware.com/solx86/internal-modems.html > >My ISP (Southwestern Bell) has a Unix machine on the other >end and does not use PAP or CHAP so the script was easy. >It is working fine. I plan to burn a CD with the McIDAS source code >(and gcc, other needed stuff) and the GEMPAK binary (unless it will >build under Solaris x86 with gcc now). I will then be all set up. > >Hope this helps you out. It most likely will. Again, thanks for the information. >Robert Mullenax Tom