Immensely suffering getting online, does anyone have ideas?

[KeiNishimaru]

Heyo, another lost soul attempting to find vintage online bliss here.

I've been spending the past month trying to get my Dreamcast online. The short recount of events are as follow:

• - Bought a USRobotics USR5637 USB Faxmodem (which apparently is voice-capable, but we'll get back to that).
  - Managed to get an old mate of mine to integrate the parts needed into it for the line voltage. We went 18v, since I'm a PAL user. We used a cable of 2 wires within, bypassed the female connection for a direct solder.
  - Setup the console and used the setup from https://www.dreamcast-talk.com/forum/vi ... hp?t=12731 and all it could say "OK" at ATE0 without continuing past that. I used 2 different machines, a Win10 Tower and a Win11 Laptop.
  - Bought DreamKey 3.0 and cleared out the flash memory for the ISP settings. It still didn't work, stuck at ATE0.
  - Attempted to flash the USR5637 using a firmware flasher, but all I kept getting was "Modem is Not Responding".
  - Bought a Raspberry Pi 2B and flashed DreamPi 1.8 onto an micro SD. Plugged it into the ethernet ports of my network. Still no response.
  - Current at: Ordered a pre-LVI'd cable. Struggling to look for a definite-compatible modem, as everyone keeps recommending stuff we cannot get over here. No Dell, No Lenovo, Nothing.

If anyone wants to assist someone who's trying to play online and lives in the UK, some pointers would be appreciated. Thanks In Advance.

[megavolt85]

attach a screenshot of the error.

[totalexile]

I'm in the UK and suspect that it might not be fully voice compatible. I had similar issues with a startech device which you can read up on https://www.dreamcast-talk.com/forum/vi ... =3&t=15282. With that particular usb modem I need a firmware update for the full voice support.

Post up the terminal output in a screenshot or copy and paste like megavolt85 says and we might be able to help further.

Btw I got both the Conexant RD02-D400 and Startech USB56KEMH2 devices in the UK but they are now more difficult and expensive to find now.

[KeiNishimaru]

When attempting to use the virtual machine with modem connected:

When attemping to flash the modem:


To add:

Btw I got both the Conexant RD02-D400 and Startech USB56KEMH2 devices in the UK but they are now more difficult and expensive to find now.

Do keep in mind that I've already blown almost 200 on this, it's getting rather ridiculous. I wonder if we all could compile some sort of mini-database of those that definitely work and those that don't instead of just saying "Dude, get the Dell or Lenovo modems" when they're not available worldwide. It would help get people interested in playing online more.

[megavolt85]

for test change from USB 2.0 to USB 1.1

[KeiNishimaru]

[megavolt85]

what is speed detected now?
Detected device ttyACM0 with speed ???

[KeiNishimaru]

"Detected device ttyACM0 with speed 460800"

[megavolt85]

with USB 1.1?

[KeiNishimaru]

Yeah, but it is not connected to the Dreamcast right now- will do a quick hook-up soon.