Connecting to Sympatico via modem on Linux

Sat Nov 13 05:27:39 UTC 2004

>On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Paul DiRezze wrote:

> Ok, the computer sees the modem, dials and seems to connect correctly with 
> Sympatico's modem but something is screwing up at this point because it just 
> hangs up and re-dials.  I keep changing settings from what I can glean from 
> Windoze and Mac dial-up instructions but no luck so far.

Connect manually using a terminal (minicom or seyon) and see what happens. 
If the connection goes ppp directly you should see garbage strings on the 
screen, but no hangup.

Peter
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