Dial up modem issue?

[Edward]

Christian Del Pino wrote:

> I have always used my Fedora 2 laptop on my DSL connection at home. Now
> that I am traveling, I need to setup a dial up connection, but I am
> having a couple of issues.
> 
> I have an IBM T23 with an internal win modem, but I am using a PCMCIA
> modem that is compatible with Linux. After I setup everything through
> system-config-network and try to activate it, I get the following:
> 
> Failed to activate net with error 8
> 
> I have tried searching the archives, but I couldn't find anything
> similar to the error I am getting. Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Chris

Have you tried speaking directly to the modem through something like 
minicom?

BTW, www.tldp.org have excellent documentation on modem and ISP hook-up.

Regards,
Ed.