> wvdial and kppp both died as soon as > they tried to start up ppp
Yes I had exactly that problem. I don't remember exactly how I fixed it, except that there was an entry in a text configuration file that had to be changed (duh!). The file /etc/ppp/options seems to be a good place to start. For some reason the file /etc/ppp/ppp-up wasn't in my path so I had to list the full path in the chat script. Good luck! On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 10:27:00 -0500, "Robert Citek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > 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/ -- Erich Friesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The way an email service should be _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
