Help! My USRobotics Internal modem doesn't work with PPP.

Help! My USRobotics Internal modem doesn't work with PPP.

If it's a WinModem, you're out of luck--That only works with MS Windoze
and then only with special drivers. It's missing critical UART hardware
that's emulated in proprietary software and hardware interfaces.
WinModems (which run only on Windows)
are less expensive to manufacture because they don't include
a controller. Instead, they include proprietary drivers for Windows
that offload processing to the CPU.
For some reason (tell me if you know?),
Internal PCI card modems all seem to be WinModems.


If you're using aspppd, supplied with stock Solaris, you can either switch
to another PPP product that works with USRobotics Internal Sportster modems,
such as Solaris PPP (not free) or PPPd (free, see above) or try this: (from
Alan Orndorff's "Solaris x86 Resources,"

http://www.solarisresources.com/):


Modify your /etc/uucp/Dialers file in the following manner:


Add P_ZERO to your modem definition string to set it to "no parity." E.g, 




hayes   =,-, ""   P_ZERO  ""  


\dA\pTE1V1X4Q0S2=255S12=255\r\c  OK\r    \EATDT\T\r\c  CONNECT




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