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Re: PPP and Supra 288i
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kirill Shtengel)
Tue Nov 5 04:02:56 1996
From: "Kirill Shtengel" <kirill@ucla.edu>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com, tjr@myriad.com
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 00:45:18 +0000
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> Subject: PPP and Supra 288i
> If any of you brillant Linux hacks has gotten PPP to work with
> a Supra 288i PnP internal modem could you please give me the magic
> and save me some headaches.
I do use the Supra 288i PnP internal modem without much headaches.
It's main problem is PnP. Now, there are some Linux solutions for
that, but I never tried one.
But since PnP is well supported in DOS, I boot DOS first, let it
configure the modem and do a warm reboot into Linux.
There is only one trick.
First time you boot DOS, take a note of the IRQ that it assigns to
the modem (15 in my case), and then use "setserial" in Linux to set
this value. Unfortunately Linux forgets is every time it reboots, so
I had to put "setserial /dev/modem irq 15 spd_vhi" into the root
.bash_profile file - you have to be a root in order to use PPP anyways.
spd_vhi is the compression option that allows you to pump up the connection
speed up to 115200 - if the opposite side supports it, of course.
Probably a better Idea would to include this string into one of the initscripts,
but I haven't given it much thought since it works just fine the way it is.
Hope it will work for you, provided that you run MS-DOS.
Good luck,
Kiril Shtengel
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