Using a U.S. Robotics Fax modem with Slackware 10.0 3921

Are you SURE it never connects?

Of course it does - the Hayes command set is perfectly well documented and has been for years. If your modem does any extra extensions it will say so in a manual. Ask it about itself. That's atSOMETHING.

Then on the how-to-install-it cd or floppy would have been "the list of commands, or a web page address to look them up in".

No, you'll look them up. You can google.

I don't know what you mean. "Checking" consists of bringing up a serial terminal like minicom connected to your modem, and sending it a hayes dial command. Like

atdt0911234567

Then watch if it ever says CONNECT. If it says something else instead, then change the word that kppp is expecting to see.

Anyway, kppp has this "check modem" command, that tries all the standard hayes commands! Try it.

What do you mean "how"? In the normal way!

Then you are a liar. When I put "linux modem howto" into google, it works for me.

Wo why should anyone, including you, CARE? Modems are modems - that's the point. There is no important difference between one or the other!

Your nose.

Peter