I got it fixed! I didn't have a clue what you were talking about unless
you meant the speed you set your modem which I already had set to 57600
in Kppp. So on a hunch I checked out the modem HOWTO at the Linux
Documentation Project's website. In there, it talked about a program
called setserial which you use to configure your serial ports. Then I
read the manpage and tried to use setserial through the command line but
I did something wrong. I got frustrated, went to bed, then today I
looked over the man page again and by typing in 'setserial -a /dev/cua2'
it told me that COM3 was set to irq 4, which is the default setting.
However, my modem is set to irq 10 so I reconfigured the cua2 or COM3 to
irq 10 by the following command 'setserial /dev/cua2 irq 10'. Now my
internet connection is much better and I get around 2.7 to 4K depending
on which sites I'm going to. It is just as good or better than when it
was under windows. To think that over the last three weeks my problem
would have been solved just by typing that one command. The main thing
I learned is to read over the HOWTO's before installing hardware. The
com port is reset back to irq 4 every time I reboot my computer so
tomorrow I'm just going to open the case and set the modem jumper to irq
4. Recommendation to other newbies, if you have an internal modem that
is hardware based (since winmodems don't work under linux and are crap
anyway) set the jumpers to non-PNP, COM3, IRQ 4. cua0 and cua2 are at
irq 4 by default and cua1 and cua3 are at irq 3 by default I believe. I
know it sounds silly to some of you for typing all this out but I figure
there's got to be others on this list that are newbies like me. If not
now there will be.
Forrest Edwards wrote:
>
> What do you have the com port set to? It should be set to higher than the
> maximum capable throughput of your modem.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-lug-nuts@cheapnet.net [mailto:owner-lug-nuts@cheapnet.net]On
> > Behalf Of Scot Bohnenstiehl
> > Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 4:02 PM
> > To: lug-nuts@cheapnet.net
> > Subject: Internet connection under SUSE 6.1
> >
> >
> > Hi, I have SUSE 6.1 and I run my internet connection to dgweb through
> > Kppp. The problem is that although my internet does work it is slow.
> > Before with windows 98 (which I got rid of) I would get between 3 and 4K
> > per second at 40K bps. I still get about 40K bps but I average around
> > 1K per second or lower. I remember setting the MTU under windows to
> > tweak the speed a little higher so I called dgweb and they said they
> > used a MTU of 1500. So I went to the options file in the ppp folder and
> > set the MTU to 1500 but still there is no speed increase. Setting up
> > PNP under Linux looked like a pain so I set my modem (a Creative Labs
> > Modem Blaster) to non-PNP, COM 3, IRQ 10. I'm sure that Linux isn't the
> > problem, it's user error (me) except I can't figure out what I've done
> > wrong. I've tried using wvdial to establish an internet connection
> > through the command line but it can't find my modem. I set Kppp to look
> > at cua2 to find my modem and that works. I'd really appreciate any help
> > in solving this problem.
> >
> > Thanks, Scot
> >
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