Mandrake 8.2 problem

hi to all ,
plz help me solve this peculiar problem. yesterday i installed RH 7.2 on my system it recognized my modem(dial-up) just fine and got me connected to internet just fine
but today i got mandrake linux 8.2 with my computer magzine but after installation i can make it recognize my modem even durinf installation it just picks up phone but hang-up before dialling.
My modem have rockwell chipset , it is external and connected to com port 1, also i cann't find kppp package in my installation even if i installed everything except server softwares.
any help 'll be highly appreciated . thanx

hmmm weird i had a similar problem with linux corel...it recognized my winmodem it says i i have but it wont dial....bah oh well man if i where u i would just stick with red hate linux 7.2 i personally am looking for the cd of it....or mandrake 8.1. i hear 8.1 is nicer than 8.2

Linux, any Linux does not really like WinModems because it is controlled by software instead of letting the hardware do the work. When I started with Mandrake 6.0, I had a WinModem in which I threw away and bought an ISA modem which ran with absolutely no problems. Now, I hear newer distros have WinModem support, but I do not know to what extent.

I have Mandrake 8.2 in which I am very pleased with. :) However, if RedHat is what works best with what you have, stick with what works. And Corel still makes a distro? Man, I gotta check that out...

nah now corel is making one called xandos i believe they use to make corel but discontinued it :(...i happen to have it on CD the old(latest) version

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nah now corel is making one called xandos i believe they use to make corel but discontinued it

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I checked it out, and Xandos is offering Corel Linux on their FTP server. The Xandos distro is not finished developing yet, I guess we will just wait and see. Maybe they will have WinModem support, huh ;)

lol they do...corel says i have a winmodem and that it likes it...but it just wont use it to dial :P...bah this stinks

Well, KPPP (From what I remember) has a timeout feature that you can set before it hangs up... maybe somebody knows this... I have a cable modem, so it's been a while :p

hehe maybe but i htink i messed with the kppp options

Without sounding like I am telling you to suck eggs ...... have you looked in the Mandrake Control Centre ..... "Network & Internet" section has everything there needed to set up an internet and/or network connections ...

The "Hardware" section might be worth looking at to, to make sure the modem has been detected properly .... I had to re-run this with a soundcard after I believed it had been detected properly during install.

Good luck.

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Without sounding like I am telling you to suck eggs ...... have you looked in the Mandrake Control Centre ..... "Network & Internet" section has everything there needed to set up an internet and/or network connections ...

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I set everything up from the initial installation and never had a need to use the control panel to set Internet up. As for the sucking eggs part, if I am telling somebody something wrong, or I do sound like and idiot, then by all means tell me to. I am not an expert in everything. :)

this is probably a newbie question, but are all PCI modems winmodems?
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I had a WinModem in which I threw away and bought an ISA modem which ran with absolutely no problems.

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That's why I'm asking that.

They're not ALL winmodems, but it's a very high percentage. I've only ever seen one PCI modem that wasn't a winmodem.

alittlebitnumb,

..... no offence was intended ..... I have been running Mandrake since version 8.0 and the little penguin here has suffered more deaths than Kenny from South Park - usually through my own stupid mistakes (trial and error), but as I have found persistence and brute force will win the day - eventually.

Oh, I dream of cable !!! until then the trusty 56K will have to stay.

I have now learned to set things up and pretty well leave alone ..... apart from the mandatory upgrades .... and of course, when the tinkering urge becomes too strong to resist !!

Phat_Penguin, none was taken to begin with. Like I said, I did not know the dial-up settings were in the control panel until I looked. I remember when I had dial-up in Mandrake 6.0 I had to manually configure the modem in kppp then put the DNS search in resolve.conf. In fact, I origianlly had a WinModem, and had to replace it with an ISA because of the Linux thing. I also had a really rough time with setting up my sound card at the time too, which used sndcfg to probe any devices... it was a pain. I have to agree it has improved! Therefore, if there's a better way, say it! I am not an expert by any stretch....

As for the cable modem.... it's sweet.

thank you all for ur help,
i looked in hardware section as u suggested but my modem was not listed there so i took another advice and installed RH 7.2 , it wasted my half hour but i'm now happliy connected to internet. thanx

kppp should get installed in the kdenetwork.rpm package FYI