Red Hat 8 Issues...
Posted this on JustLinux.com's forum... but looking for more input (not many people have responded).
Okay, on Friday, a coworker brought me a hardware modem and the CDs for Red Hat 8. I spent all night Friday night installing it, and spent Saturday and Sunday nights pulling my hair out over issues. Here's hat I got, hopefully someone can help...
The modem is a US Robotics Sportster 56k ISA (non winmodem) modem. For good measure, and to reduce the possibility of confliction, I disabled both serial ports, and turned off the PNP OS in BIOS. According to Red Hat's Hardware Browser, the modem is detected... as an unknown device. WVDIAL finds it on ttyS1, and minicom can poll it fine. In fact, I set up a dial up to Earthlink (using the Internet Configuration Wizard, wvdail, and last night with a script using PPPD or minicom). Either way, the modem will dial out once, stay connected for about 5 mins or less, and then drop for no reason. I suspect the dropping is due to line noise... did a dial up on my parents' Win98SE machine with a terminal after dial, and after the login I got a screen of garbage for 30 mins. Indeed, when I run pppd from a root terminal, with no switches, I get garbage on screen for about 60 seconds.
If you try to dial back up, the modem will dial, recieve a carrier signal, hang repeating part of the carrier signal and then drop without connecting. This will continue until you actually power off the computer, and then book back up (doing a warm boot does nothing). When it was doing this last night, I tried hitting it with some AT commands... reset the modem, etc, but nothing worked.
Few things I have noticed....
There are 5 mingetty processes running... I tried a killall of them from the root account, and either they aren't stopping, or being respawned by something.
The memory usage steadily rises until it hits 100% and then nothing will run. Virtual Memory usage is about 2%... there's an 898mb swap partition setup, so no idea why its not taking advantage of it.
I haven't tried KDE's KPPP yet... I didn't wanna install KDE unless I had to (partial to GNOME).
Anyone have any suggestions?
Okay, on Friday, a coworker brought me a hardware modem and the CDs for Red Hat 8. I spent all night Friday night installing it, and spent Saturday and Sunday nights pulling my hair out over issues. Here's hat I got, hopefully someone can help...
The modem is a US Robotics Sportster 56k ISA (non winmodem) modem. For good measure, and to reduce the possibility of confliction, I disabled both serial ports, and turned off the PNP OS in BIOS. According to Red Hat's Hardware Browser, the modem is detected... as an unknown device. WVDIAL finds it on ttyS1, and minicom can poll it fine. In fact, I set up a dial up to Earthlink (using the Internet Configuration Wizard, wvdail, and last night with a script using PPPD or minicom). Either way, the modem will dial out once, stay connected for about 5 mins or less, and then drop for no reason. I suspect the dropping is due to line noise... did a dial up on my parents' Win98SE machine with a terminal after dial, and after the login I got a screen of garbage for 30 mins. Indeed, when I run pppd from a root terminal, with no switches, I get garbage on screen for about 60 seconds.
If you try to dial back up, the modem will dial, recieve a carrier signal, hang repeating part of the carrier signal and then drop without connecting. This will continue until you actually power off the computer, and then book back up (doing a warm boot does nothing). When it was doing this last night, I tried hitting it with some AT commands... reset the modem, etc, but nothing worked.
Few things I have noticed....
There are 5 mingetty processes running... I tried a killall of them from the root account, and either they aren't stopping, or being respawned by something.
The memory usage steadily rises until it hits 100% and then nothing will run. Virtual Memory usage is about 2%... there's an 898mb swap partition setup, so no idea why its not taking advantage of it.
I haven't tried KDE's KPPP yet... I didn't wanna install KDE unless I had to (partial to GNOME).
Anyone have any suggestions?
