Re: [Sheflug] Modem puzzle

[Darrell Blake <nospam [at] Btinternet.com>]

Hi,

I used to have lots of problems with connecting but I always found that 
WVDial worked fine. You could try using a program called PPPSetup which 
always seems to work too. A lot simpler than WVDial tho and doesn't have many 
functions.

Darrell

On Thursday 24 May 2001 12:15, you wrote:

> Hi there
>
> I am having a problem getting my modem to dial out.
>
> I have a US robotics sporster flash modem on my desktop PC and I am using
> WVdial to connect to Freeserve.
>
> The modem dials the number but I am getting the message
> "ppp daemon died unexpectedly exit code =10"
>
> I also have a laptop that has a PCMCIA modem in it and this connects to
> freeserve every time so
> I know that is not a problem there.
>
> The only difference with the two machines is that when running wvdial on
> the laptop
> the connection has line
>
> "CONNECT 115200 V34"
>
> and it connects fine.
>
> With the external usrobotics modem on my desktop I get the line
>
> CONNECT 33900 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (and loads more squiggles)
> and the PPP connection fails.
>
> Could this be the modem at fault?
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
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