Been configuring SuSE 7.1 on a spare disk, on an SMP box :
Firstly configuration very simple, Epson Photo 870 has an entry for it.
Sound now working on my SMP (dual Celeron) box, on post-install yast2 run
testing sound would lock up machine after a few seconds repeating a short
bit of music. Much to my surprise, it worked from yast2 under KDE and sound
plays, I expected it to hang the machine up again. I had started using
noapic kernel option (due to BP6 apics being flakey), which might be the
solution, or there's something odd about the post-install environment, as
it's done early on in run levels.
Internet Connection setup, very simple but failed as NTL call fails, you get
one of those voice messages saying 'there's been an error'. I'm using an
external Hayes Accura 56k flashed to V.90.
I tried inserting some pauses with comma in the dial string, but found it's
not even wvdial specific, as the same happened with Minicom. Checked by
turning the modem off, back on, avoiding the extra modem init strings that
wvdial used by default (which I think are unecessary and have now removed).
Anyway eventually I switched it to pulse dialing (simply by altering ATDT to
ATDP in Minicom), the call goes through and a modem answers and the
connection is made. Having gone back and configured wvdial to use pulse
dialing, Kinternet connects to. So When I reboot, both Debian (using chat
rather than wvdial) and Windows connect as usual using Tone dialing without
problems. I thought that the dialing of modem, could not be altered by the
OS as it's just sending an ATD string.
Any ideas or explanations on this one, this could explain why folk sometimes
have awful trouble connecting to NTL, for no apparent reason and for others
it's simple?
baffled Rob
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