What the Heck cant get online......

**cowmamba** · 07-11-2003, 03:01 AM

hi imm haveing problems with Knoppix-std and Knoppix 3.2 and Demo Linux 3.0.1 the exact same problem with all three i cant connect online with my modem maybe you can help

56K PCI Voice Modem SF-1156IV R9A is the name of my modem
made by Conexant
is there any drivers or something i need because when i go to connect i set everything up and ive tried everything i can think of and i cant get online sometime's itll say initallizing modem then itll say modem cant be found or its not responding or its busy well i dont know what the heck but can some one please help thanks

**aaronforjesus** · 07-11-2003, 03:05 PM

First try setting up pppconfig or kppp to see if it detects the modem. If they don't, then you probably have a software or "winmodem". Use the scanModem tool from http://www.linmodems.org to see if you have a software driven modem that requires a specialized driver.

**bmike1** · 07-23-2003, 06:35 AM

Originally Posted by aaronforjesus

First try setting up pppconfig or kppp to see if it detects the modem. If they don't, then you probably have a software or "winmodem". Use the scanModem tool from http://www.linmodems.org to see if you have a software driven modem that requires a specialized driver.

Nawwwww. Go to a terminal and tyoe in lspci -v and if your modem is on the list it works.

**cowmamba** · 07-23-2003, 07:44 PM

ok i tryied that it and everything came up and it showed my modem this is what came up about my modem

00:0f.0 Communication controller: Conexant HCF 56k Data/Fax/Voice/Spkp Modem (re v 0 8 )
Subsystem: GVC Corporation Gateway Red Owl
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
I/O ports at 1070 [size=8]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

thats the name of it and all but now what should i do lol

so... hope you can help me out some more thanks