External Modem Port

[GhostDawg]

I just got an Robotics external modem and would like to hook it up to my Freebsd 4.7 to get online. What I need to know is what device port is for it?

In Windows, it's listed on Com1. I've been dying to get online with Free since I can't seem to get drivers for my internal Lucent Winmodem.

Thnx.

[silverlokk]

Likely, /dev/cua00

Regards

[GhostDawg]

Thnx...I'll give that a shot!

[GhostDawg]

Ok, I got my external 56k Robotics modem to work...I had to create a /etc/resolv.conf file but when I open Konq, it doesn't bring in any webpages. The logo thingy just moves, the way it does when its getting a page, but nothing is coming in.

Oops, I just thought about try pinging a site...silly me. I'll try that next.

Also what shell is free using? My up & down arrow keys is not bringing the commands I type in the shell window. But it does work when I'm root user.

Any ideas?

Thnx.

[silverlokk]

I'm not sure, I changed my shell a few days ago to /usr/local/bin/zsh. Another good choice is tcsh, which I think is already there once you install Beastie. You can find out your current shell by typing
[code:1:b1c8c5fa84]$SHELL[/code:1:b1c8c5fa84] at the command line.

Regards

[elmore]

the root user uses csh in FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and I believe NetBSD.

[GhostDawg]

Thnx guys, I'll check it out!

[GhostDawg]

I got the modem going but now when I use KDE's KPPP it connects and nothing come through to the browser.

Any ideas/suggestions to try?

[GhostDawg]

One thing I've noticed when using the external modem with Linux, is it doesn't work very well, it keep disconnecting from the net and web pages seems to load slowly. I also noticed if I use the internal winmodem while the external modem is powered on it does the same thing, but when the ex. modem is off, the internal modem works fine.

The external modem still not bringing webpages into the browser using FBSD either.

I wonder if the winmodem is affecting the performance of the external modem and vice-versa?

I may take the winmodem out of the system and just use the external modem for all my net connections!

Just a thought.

[silverlokk]

Just occurred to me that the winmodem, whether it's working in FBSD or not, is still taking up resources, specifically an IRQ and a base I/O address, that conflict with the serial port -- to w/c the external modem is attached. Which explains why its performance is bad. Yeah, ditch the winmodem and use the real modem.

Regards.

[GhostDawg]

I finally took out the Winmodem and tried using the external modem, but I still get the same results, nothing is coming into the browser. Even when I ping a website using the name, nothing happens.

The modem does work when I'm using Debian, so it's not the modem.

Anymore suggestions?

[|MiNi0n|]

when the modem is up can you ping yahoo.com? or google.com?

[GhostDawg]

Well, I tried pinging www.yahoo.com and nothing happen, I also tried pinging some other sites and nothing happens. I didn't try pinging their ip addresses. I will try that when I log back into FBSD.

Thnx.

[|MiNi0n|]

Can you resolve names? Try typing:

nslookup yahoo.com

That should return various IP addresses for yahoo.com. If you're not getting that than there is something wrong with your dns. Check your resolv.conf, though name servers should be supplied when you connect to your isp.

If you can do lookup (well... even if you can't) try to force ping to use the ppp interface. Once you're connected via modem, do an ifconfig -a and determine which interface ppp brought up. Usually ppp0 or similar. See what IP address was assigned to that interface then try the following where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP assigned to the ppp interface:

ping -I xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 66.218.71.198

[GhostDawg]

I'll give those suggestions a try when I get home Monday or Tues....thnx.

[GhostDawg]

Ok, I tried pinging an ip address and it works, but when I tried nslookup, it did nothing and gave error message, Can't find server name for 66.218.71.95: Timed Out

Then gave message, Default Servers not Available

I also discovered that if I type the ip address numbers into Konq browser, i can get the website but if I type the name, nothing happens.

I forgot to do the ifconfig stuff, will try that later on and the ping force command.

Anymore suggestions?

Thnx.
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[|MiNi0n|]

You've got no DNS!!! What's in your /etc/resolv.conf?

Where do you connect and using what command? The DNS info required in resolv.conf should be supplied by your ISP when you connect.

[GhostDawg]

Ok, I got my external 56k Robotics modem to work...I had to create a /etc/resolv.conf file but when I open Konq, it doesn't bring in any webpages. The logo thingy just moves, the way it does when its getting a page, but nothing is coming in.
I did put my isp numbers in the /etc/resolv.conf file. And I use kppp to dial the phone number.

As I mention earlier, if I type the ip address in Konq., I can view a webpage but if I type in the name then I get nothing from Konq...

What command should I use to dialout using the console? Maybe I need to configure that and see if it works better.

Thnx.

[|MiNi0n|]

You can add DNS servers in the kppp configuration to use those servers when kppp dials up. Try that.

It's possible you don't have the correct and/or working DNS servers in your resolv.conf. Try an interactive nslookup via the DNS servers you have listed in your resolv.conf to see if they actually work. So, if your resolv.conf looks like:

nameserver 142.77.1.5
nameserver 209.167.141.5

Then at your prompt do:

nslookup - 142.77.1.5

That should go into interactive mode and if the DNS server is correct you should see something similar to:

---
# nslookup - 142.77.1.5
Default Server: ns2.uunet.ca
Address: 142.77.1.5

>
---

So, at that prompt (>) type yahoo.com and it should return:

---
> yahoo.com
Server: ns2.uunet.ca
Address: 142.77.1.5

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: yahoo.com
Addresses: 64.58.79.230, 66.218.71.198

>
---

If so, then those servers are good. If not, you've got the wrong DNS info!

[GhostDawg]

That seems to have solved the problems, Minion. I had to find the correct ip addresses and I added them and now i'm writing this post using FBSD.

Thnx so much.

[elmore]

Way to go GhostDawg!