I'd like to start off by saying that I'm not looking for someone to give me detailed instructions on how to do what I'm trying to do, I'm merely saying what I've done so far and am asking whether this will be a waste of my time.
I was supposed to be moving soon to an area that has Cable/DSL but my plans fell through, so I've been without SEQ for about 6 months now and have been on /gulp dialup. I have an old ISA 56k v.90 usrobotics modem and to my knowledge it is not a 'winmodem'. FCC#0460 Product Code 00568700. I've installed it in my linux box(redhat 8.0) and have been trying to get it to work for about a week now(on and off of course).
To give a little history of what I've done so far...When I first installed it, it showed up as an "unknown device" in the hardware browser and couldn't even get the 'query modem' to detect it in the properties of KPPP.
I read somewhere that you need to make sure the jumpers are not set to PNP. They were, so I changed the jumpers to COM port to 3 and the IRQ to....4 I think, as any other COM port had a serial conflict when I booted.
Now, when I query modem in it seems to detect it, ie... it goes through the ATI, ATI1, ATI2, ATI3, etc... however when I use KPPP to actually dial it says modem is busy or does not respond.
SO, to my actual question, is this even worth it? or do you think it's something VERY simple that I'm too dumb to check, lol. Otherwise, I'm going to have to find a way to get a SMC7004ABR(no credit card), since bestbuy and compusa don't carry them in stock here in reno. Hmmmm ebay maybe.
I was hesitant to post here as it does not technically pertain to SEQ itself, but I figured that many here have tried to get something similar to work and this board gets checked a lot more often than the generic linux boards that I've been posting at. Not to mention, I highly respect many of you here, the combined knowledge on these boards is far superior than anything I've seen so far.