[ltp] Thinkpad 600 and Internet connection?.sdm

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Le 2/13/03, =E0 6:55:09 PM h, "Andrey Yurovsky" <andrey@thedotcommune.co=
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connection?.sdm:


> For me the main problem in doing mwave for the first time was followin=
g
> the setup instructions properly: you need to move some things to the
> appropriate place in /etc/rc.d, create a symlink, etc (get the mwave
> driver to load on startup). =20

IMHO, I would not advise to have the mwaved driver loaded and started at=
=20
bootup. My own experience with a similar system (TP600, RH 7.2) has=20
taught me not to. I had this setup during a few weeks, and it lead to=20
several crashes. At first, let me mention that, each time the lid was=20
closed, even when offline, the mwave modem was out when I re-opened the =

lid, and I had to restart it. Sometimes, at startup of the TP600, the=20
modem wouldn't start... and then, in such event, the machine got stuck=20
and I could do nothing else than disconnect from power and reboot, then =

have the system go through fsck at next startup, with all the troubles=20
and hazards that you can imagine. I have therefore disabled the load of =

mwaved on startup ; whenever I want to connect to internet, I run 'mwave=
d=20
restart', and everything goes OK. It still happens sometimes that the=20
modem won't start, but then it does not crash the system, and I can try =

again without any problem.

For your information, this comes to you from my TP600 with RH 7.2 and=20
Mwave internal modem.


> Are you at the point that you can tell the
> daemon to { start | stop | restart } ?  I can't get to my thinkpad at
> the moment but when I can I will look up what I did to get it working =
(I
> made some notes).

>       -Andrey

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-thinkpad-admin@linux-thinkpad.org
> [mailto:linux-thinkpad-admin@linux-thinkpad.org] On Behalf Of Per Edin=

> Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 9:49 AM
> To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
> Subject: Re: [ltp] Thinkpad 600 and Internet connection?



> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Angel de Vicente" <angelv@dai.ed.ac.uk>
> To: <linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 6:36 PM
> Subject: [ltp] Thinkpad 600 and Internet connection?


> > Hello,
> >
> > I=B4ve tried it a number of times, but there is no way... I got the
> > Mwave drivers, I run mwaved and then mwavem and everything seems to =
be

> > fine, but then I get a network device configuration (under RedHat8.0=
)
> > but it
> complains
> > that it cannot activate the device, or the connexion becomes active
> > but nothing happens.... :-(
> >
> > I think I'm missing a lot of information. Is there out there some
> > information for real newbies on how to set up the internal modem in =
a
> > thinkpad 600 AND then create a connection to the Internet?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Angel de Vicente
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------
> > PhD Research Student
> > Edinburgh University

> Hi,

> I dont have any information on this myself as I've tried the same thin=
g
> that you have but with even worse results. I have a ThinkPad 600e with=

> an internal modem and when I tried the mwave stuff but it didn't even
> wanna start.

> Another thing, is there any possiblity to get the serial port /dev/tty=
S0
> working ? As I see it the internal winmodem is blocking the port. I've=

> tried it in both Win98,Debian 3 and BeOS Developer Edition, it doesn't=

> work in either, in w2k it works fine but w2k is shipped with special
> mwave drivers.

> Best regards, Per Edin

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