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I have a Stratitec IC56A (Lucent chipset DSP1648c) Winmodem. When I dial with eznet, I heard my modem dial and saw my IP address. After connecting, I couldn't do anything on the Internet. I really want to connect without having to use Windows ICS from my XP Pro laptop.

The problem would seem to be somewhere in the OS and not in the modem itself.

I read somewhere that it is not only possible but easy to directly connect two computers through their dial-up modems. If anyone knows how to do this, it might allow to troubleshoot the connection setup in the OS before attempting to connect to the internet through an ISP.

The idea I have in mind is to dial a (local) friend's computer and practice setting up a network connection with it. If another computer is close enough you could simply run a telephone connector between the modems, instead of dialing through the phone company's switch, to connect the two.

Did you try Gkdial?
...run Modem Wizard first, which you will have done already.
...run Gkdial, create new account, choose "pap" authentication.
...quit Gkdial.
...edit the file in /etc/ppp/chatscripts/, change the "AT string to just "ATZ".
...Run Gkdial, try to connect.

You say it did connect with eznet, but I did the above for a Lucent modem
on a friends laptop and it worked.

Hello,

I also have a Lucent Winmodem in my computer, and I also had trouble connecting. I recall that wvdial did not detect my winmodem, even after having downloaded and installed the correct pup package for it. I got to the point where eznet did make the phone call, but it would hang up after less than a minute. So I had to dig a little deeper to find out I needed to set a parameter called "chat=no" (I'm doing this from memory, I'm not at my own computer now). You have to set it from the command line or console.

I hope this helps.

Warmest greetings from Peru,


Oswaldo Bellido
"OzzyBB"

I ran across this and this on the internet. They talk about Windows a lot but look like their info applies to any OS.

In gkdial, I get "The connection was lost or the connection being tried was not successful. Click "Connect!" to reconnect." I tried "chat=no", but I still couldn't connect. My Winmodem does work in DSL 2.0 RC1.

Hello again,

Sorry to hear you still have modem issues.

I do get the same message in GKdial, and WVdial still does not detect my modem. So far, Eznet is the only dial up program I got to work. I will try and make them work, too, so I can come up with a better answer,

Warmest gretings from Peru,


Oswaldo Bellido
"OzzyBB"