Robert Citek wrote: > On Apr 2, 2006, at 12:20 PM, Erich Friesen wrote: > > 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. > > When we used minicom to talk to the city's ISP (MORENET,) the wait time from CONNECT to the first welcome screen was a long time. 30-90 seconds. I suspected it was waiting on an available unix/linux server to connect to from the modem bank. When we attempted to time this interval using Robert's iPod, it timed out several times. Probably higher usage in the afternoon. Anyway, we definitely have to put a pause in the script after connect for the city's ISP. I don't recommend using the city's ISP for T/S or triage of modems.
How many phone lines are there at BW? Can you call out and back in the other line? The best bet would be to set up a reliable server+modem with the pppd+mgetty server. That way you can control the environment [1] to test the modems with. Or use a reliable ISP as Robert mentions. > 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 > Ed [1] http://ct.radiology.uiowa.edu/~jiangm/software-docs/ppp-dialin-server/ -- Ed Howland WDT Solutions, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (314) 962-0766 _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
