On Apr 2, 2006, at 12:20 PM, Erich Friesen wrote: > Yes, I used to do that quite often. Used an internal ISA modem, > configure with isapnp and wvdail is what I used for dial up. Started > doing this with SuSE 5.3 or so up through SuSE 8.1.
On Saturday, Jerry, Ed, and I were at ByteWorks working on this. There were actually a few confounding issues which did not allow a successful PPP connection: KPPP: turned out to be a permissions issue. Although the default user was in group dialout, kppp was set to run in group dip(30). So, we added the default user to grop dip and kppp worked again. In retrospect an error message with KDE would have been nice. ISP: the city's ISP is doing something weird. While we were able to connect using minicom, wvdial, and kppp, we never were able to establish a PPP connection. wvdial and kppp both died as soon as they tried to start up ppp. Whatever the city is doing for establishing a PPP connection is non-obvious and something we still haven't figured out. modem: the modem didn't have a built-in speaker, or at least one that was sufficiently loud. So, we couldn't tell that the modem had failed while we were trouble-shooting the process, specifically, the modem wouldn't go off-hook. This made dialing-out very difficult. Upshot: - use a more reliable ISP, at least for troubleshooting and configuring the modems. - somehow connect the modem to an audible speaker. Probably the easiest is to use an old phone and a line splitter. We also discovered the website with instructions for how to connect to the city's ISP using Windows or OS X: http://www.more.net/technical/unsupported/index.html Thanks go to Ed and Jerry for helping out. I sure did learn a lot. Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
