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Paul S Secinaro wrote:
> 
> I will probably be buying a US Robotics Sportster 28.8 internal modem
> soon (found it on sale for $150 and got a rain check), and I'm
> wondering if anyone has had any problems with this device under Linux?
> I ask because USR now advertises that this modem has Plug 'n Play
> capability, and I've heard that Linux has problems with some PnP
> devices like network cards.  My gut feeling is that it's probably not
> a big deal, but has anyone actually used one of the newer USR's with
> Linux?

I am using a PnP Supra Express 28.8 with no problems under Linux.
Win 95 configured the modem to be on com3 and use IRQ10.  Since it is
not the standard setup under Linux I had to play with the setserial
commnad and now everything is running fine.

Good Luck

Damian

Paul S Secinaro (pss1@hopper.unh.edu) wrote:
: I will probably be buying a US Robotics Sportster 28.8 internal modem
: soon (found it on sale for $150 and got a rain check), and I'm
: wondering if anyone has had any problems with this device under Linux?
: I ask because USR now advertises that this modem has Plug 'n Play
: capability, and I've heard that Linux has problems with some PnP
: devices like network cards.  My gut feeling is that it's probably not
: a big deal, but has anyone actually used one of the newer USR's with
: Linux?

I use one at home. I didn't risk the PnP though, as PnP doesn't work
particularly well under Windows 95 either. I simply jumered the card to an
IRQ and COM port and used it like any other PC card. It works just dandy.


: -Paul
: -- 
: Paul Secinaro (pss1@christa.unh.edu)
: Synthetic Vision and Pattern Analysis Laboratory
: UNH Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

In article <310C7B0D.4DEC85F1@mustang.uwo.ca>, Damian Trybus <dtrybus@mustang.uwo.ca> writes:
|> Paul S Secinaro wrote:
|> > 
|> > I will probably be buying a US Robotics Sportster 28.8 internal modem
|> > soon (found it on sale for $150 and got a rain check), and I'm
|> > wondering if anyone has had any problems with this device under Linux?
|> > I ask because USR now advertises that this modem has Plug 'n Play
|> > capability, and I've heard that Linux has problems with some PnP
|> > devices like network cards.  My gut feeling is that it's probably not
|> > a big deal, but has anyone actually used one of the newer USR's with
|> > Linux?
|> 
It can be PnP or not:  pull all the jumpers off and it's Pnp.  Put them
on and it's jumper configurable.  Works great!

I have  one running on my linux system and the only problem it has is with the FAX
side.  The fax software (hyfsa for soemthing like that) get a Phase B error when 
attempting to connect.

David Byrd (byrd@dot.dot.dot) wrote:
: In article <310C7B0D.4DEC85F1@mustang.uwo.ca>, Damian Trybus <dtrybus@mustang.uwo.ca> writes:
: |> Paul S Secinaro wrote:
: |> > 
: |> > I will probably be buying a US Robotics Sportster 28.8 internal modem
: |> > soon (found it on sale for $150 and got a rain check), and I'm
: |> > wondering if anyone has had any problems with this device under Linux?
: |> > I ask because USR now advertises that this modem has Plug 'n Play
: |> > capability, and I've heard that Linux has problems with some PnP
: |> > devices like network cards.  My gut feeling is that it's probably not
: |> > a big deal, but has anyone actually used one of the newer USR's with
: |> > Linux?
: |> 
: It can be PnP or not:  pull all the jumpers off and it's Pnp.  Put them
: on and it's jumper configurable.  Works great!

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300 E. Peacock Dr
Mahomet IL 61853
(217) 586-2753

mikel@prairienet.org
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Hey Paul

	I use a the U.S. Robotics (Sportster) 28800 and I run it under Linux
and Windows 95 with no problem.  It fits all my needs.  Before I
bought it I did some reading about it and found everything to be true.
I recommend it.  

George
Damian Trybus <dtrybus@mustang.uwo.ca> wrote:

>Paul S Secinaro wrote:
>> 
>> I will probably be buying a US Robotics Sportster 28.8 internal modem
>> soon (found it on sale for $150 and got a rain check), and I'm
>> wondering if anyone has had any problems with this device under Linux?
>> I ask because USR now advertises that this modem has Plug 'n Play
>> capability, and I've heard that Linux has problems with some PnP
>> devices like network cards.  My gut feeling is that it's probably not
>> a big deal, but has anyone actually used one of the newer USR's with
>> Linux?

>I am using a PnP Supra Express 28.8 with no problems under Linux.
>Win 95 configured the modem to be on com3 and use IRQ10.  Since it is
>not the standard setup under Linux I had to play with the setserial
>commnad and now everything is running fine.

>Good Luck

>Damian

George S. Thompson (buddyt@earthlink.net) wrote:
: Hey Paul

: 	I use a the U.S. Robotics (Sportster) 28800 and I run it under Linux
: and Windows 95 with no problem.  It fits all my needs.  Before I
: bought it I did some reading about it and found everything to be true.
: I recommend it.  

Regrettably, I only run LINUX, so can't PnP configure the same model
internal USR modem.  I have set it to com1 irq4 -- pretty normal.  
It works fine with comm programs such as kermit, but when I try to
nail up a SLIP connection to my ISP, it fails miserably.  I've tried
everything I can think of, and read every manual on the modem as
well as serial com on Linux.  To no avail.

Any suggesttions would be welcomed.

--
Bob Bradley 708 765-3102 rbradley@mcs.net rbradley@ncsc.ameritech.com
---

Robert Lee Bradley wrote:
> 
> George S. Thompson (buddyt@earthlink.net) wrote:
> : Hey Paul
> 
> :       I use a the U.S. Robotics (Sportster) 28800 and I run it under Linux
> : and Windows 95 with no problem.  It fits all my needs.  Before I
> : bought it I did some reading about it and found everything to be true.
> : I recommend it.
> 
> Regrettably, I only run LINUX, so can't PnP configure the same model
> internal USR modem.  I have set it to com1 irq4 -- pretty normal.
> It works fine with comm programs such as kermit, but when I try to
> nail up a SLIP connection to my ISP, it fails miserably.  I've tried
> everything I can think of, and read every manual on the modem as
> well as serial com on Linux.  To no avail.
> 

strange.  i find it odd that your modem would work fine under kermit,
for example, but would "fail miserably" when firing up a slip 
connection.  it's hard to tell from your post, but my guess is that
the problem is with your slip setup rather than you modem.  are you
using dip to run the slip connection?  take a look at the manpage
and at the documentation that comes with it.  my advice is to first try
and get the thing running "manually" (i.e. don't use a dip script
but use dip interactively to setup the connection).  i believe the
documentation (or the manpage) explains how to do this and it is
relatively straightforward.  also, you do need to have both tcp/ip and
slip (and cslip if you want to use it) support in your kernel.  you 
probably do, but since you don't say i can't be sure.  if it helps
any, i have the exact same modem set to com1, irq4 and i works fine
with slip.  must say though that i've never tried a "standard" comm
program with it ;) ...but yes, check out the dip documentation.  i believe
you should find a solution there.

ciao,

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buddyt@earthlink.net (George S. Thompson) writes:

>Hey Paul

>	I use a the U.S. Robotics (Sportster) 28800 and I run it under Linux
>and Windows 95 with no problem.  It fits all my needs.  Before I
>bought it I did some reading about it and found everything to be true.
>I recommend it.  

Just to follow up my own post - I finally did get the Sportster PnP,
and yes, it does work fine.  It turns out that it only goes into PnP
mode if you pull out all the IRQ and COM port select jumpers.  If you
use the jumpers, the modem will be hardwired to those settings, just
as you would expect from a non-PnP Sportster.

-Paul


-- 
Paul Secinaro (pss1@christa.unh.edu)
Synthetic Vision and Pattern Analysis Laboratory
UNH Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

> Regrettably, I only run LINUX, so can't PnP configure the same model
> internal USR modem.  I have set it to com1 irq4 -- pretty normal.  
> It works fine with comm programs such as kermit, but when I try to
> nail up a SLIP connection to my ISP, it fails miserably.  I've tried
> everything I can think of, and read every manual on the modem as
> well as serial com on Linux.  To no avail.
> 
> Any suggesttions would be welcomed.

What does fail miserably mean?  How are you invoking slip?  Are you using
dip and a script?  Have you tried dip -v so you can watch the dip
progress?  Does your kernel have slip support compiled into it.  Do you
set up your serial ports in RC.local? Have you set up your routes and
addresses?  Do you have and IP address or expect to get one from the
ISP?   Does the script dial, but not connect; connect but not log in; log
in but not start slip?  Need a little more information . . . 

I'd suggest the SERIAL-HOWTO and the dip README documentation.

Paul S Secinaro wrote:
> 
> buddyt@earthlink.net (George S. Thompson) writes:
> 
> >Hey Paul
> 
> >       I use a the U.S. Robotics (Sportster) 28800 and I run it under Linux
> >and Windows 95 with no problem.  It fits all my needs.  Before I
> >bought it I did some reading about it and found everything to be true.
> >I recommend it.
> 
> Just to follow up my own post - I finally did get the Sportster PnP,
> and yes, it does work fine.  It turns out that it only goes into PnP
> mode if you pull out all the IRQ and COM port select jumpers.  If you
> use the jumpers, the modem will be hardwired to those settings, just
> as you would expect from a non-PnP Sportster.
> Works fine in PnP mode, too.  Just initialize it under W95 first, then Linux 
can use whatever settings W95 chose.

On Thu, 22 Feb 1996, mike wrote:

> (A copy of this message has also been posted to the following newsgroups:
> comp.os.linux.hardware, comp.os.linux.networking,comp.dcom.modems)
> 
> > Regrettably, I only run LINUX, so can't PnP configure the same model
> > internal USR modem.  I have set it to com1 irq4 -- pretty normal.  
> > It works fine with comm programs such as kermit, but when I try to
> > nail up a SLIP connection to my ISP, it fails miserably.  I've tried
> > everything I can think of, and read every manual on the modem as
> > well as serial com on Linux.  To no avail.
> > 
> > Any suggesttions would be welcomed.
> 
> What does fail miserably mean?  How are you invoking slip?  Are you using
> dip and a script?  Have you tried dip -v so you can watch the dip
> progress?  Does your kernel have slip support compiled into it.  Do you
> set up your serial ports in RC.local? Have you set up your routes and

Yes to all the above.  It used to work (famous words) before getting
this modem and replacing the internal modem that came with the system.

> addresses?  Do you have and IP address or expect to get one from the
> ISP?   Does the script dial, but not connect; connect but not log in; log
> in but not start slip?  Need a little more information . . . 

Dials, connects, sets the routing, etc.  netstat -i suggests all is ok.
ping to the isp produces no response.  netstat -i shows packets 
successfully sent, but none received.  Also, no errors.  

> 
> I'd suggest the SERIAL-HOWTO and the dip README documentation.
> 

Been there.  Done that.


At any rate, I'm switching to ppp and am requesting a firmware
upgrade for the USR.  Maybe my problem is just the Packard Bell
computer (shudder -- all I can afford) and the bogus internal 
modem it came with.  I pulled it off the motherboard and disabled
the com1 port in cmos.  So now Linux sees com1 as the internal USR
ok.  Just the slip connection seems either unresponsive, or, eventually,
netstat -i either hangs, or drops sl0 as a line.  Occasionally dip
will die as well but not always.