On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 09:00:15AM +0000, Edenyard wrote: > I've just been given a Viglen Dossier 486 Laptop with PCMCIA modem > and one of the first jobs (after removing doze) was to install Arachne > 1.7r3. I managed to get the modem driver to work and the modem is well > and truly functional. Arachne will dial with it and I get the message > CONNECT 28800, but it seems to fall over at the PPP stage. > > The thing is, I have a feeling we've been here before on this list > (years ago, it seems) but I can't remember what the answer was. How do I > get any diagnostic info out of arachne to say what exactly is failing? > What would stop it working on one 486 when it works perfectly on > another, both with identical ISP?
Howard Eisenberger responded: : I don't know anything about PCMCIA modems, but I have been playing : around of late with a parallel port pocket modem (also "software : driven") on an old 386 laptop, and am unable to load EPPPDD at all. : However, both etherppp and LSPPP (new version .80) work well and I : am running some smaller Internet apps. > Oh yes - vital stats: 486DX, 20Mb RAM, 105+ (green) showing in > Arachne. Using exactly the same ISP and ARACHNE.CFG settings as in my > 486 desktop machine, which has worked with Arachne well for simply ages. > Using bog-standard Arachne 1.70r3 with EPPPD. : Perhaps it is EPPPD that is the problem. EPPPD has a bug, will not make IP connection with some modems, including my USRobotics PCI hardware modem, even though the dialer, such as CHAT or MINITERM, works. Not having EPPPD source code, I can't figure why EPPPD fails to recognize such modems.
