From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 3 09:41:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA22280 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Sep 1997 09:41:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postoffice.prismnet.com (postoffice.prismnet.com [205.166.246.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA22273; Wed, 3 Sep 1997 09:41:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smokey.prismnet.com (greg@smokey.prismnet.com [205.166.246.3]) by postoffice.prismnet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA04947; Wed, 3 Sep 1997 11:41:02 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from greg@localhost) by smokey.prismnet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA00914; Wed, 3 Sep 1997 11:41:02 -0500 (CDT) From: Greg Stringfellow Message-Id: <199709031641.LAA00914@smokey.prismnet.com> Subject: Re: Problem connecting to K56Flex PM-3 In-Reply-To: <199709031559.KAA00716@linus.intrastar.net> from Jacob Suter at "Sep 3, 97 11:00:11 am" To: jsuter@moon.intrastar.net Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 11:41:01 -0500 (CDT) Cc: kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net, FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-ISP@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jacob Suter said: > > The ISP that I subscribe to and I are having trouble > > understanding why I cannot connect to there upgraded > > Portmaster 3 K56Flex with my Taicom (cheap) MU32PV 14.4 > > internal UMC V.32bis/FAX/VOICE MODEM, S/W Ver 6.05/ V1.0-A. > > In my experience all 'cheap' (read: 'low quality components') modems have > compatability problems. 'cheap' modems usually have problems handling odd > things (I'm sure the kflex modem tone-up is a bit different), and it just > hoses the modem and you don't get the results you want to... I've > personally had this problem with every modem since a 2400... Cheaper in > price generally doesn't mean its less expensive :) > > >From my experience, Supra has been my best modems yet, but I haven't tried > to use kflex (our switch is a real classic - DMS-10, with plenty of its own > problems causing us not to be able to use it), but I'd suspect they would > be making a quality kflex capable modem pretty cheap. If the modems won't connect, try putting a few commas after the dialup string. That way, it gets past the initial tone. This trick has worked for quite a few modems. Oh, we've seen problems with almost every brand of WinModem available. Also, V.42bis in the current 3.7 release of the PM-3 code is broken. On modems that are having a hard time staying online turn off V.42bis and/or error correction. Greg -- Greg Stringfellow PrismNet, Inc. - Austin, TX USA Network Administration WWW Pages, ISDN, Telnet, Dialup Accounts HTTP://www.prismnet.com Phone: (512)-418-1568 "The trouble with the rat race is, even if you win, you're still a rat"