On Monday 17 September 2001 01:27 am, Luis R Finotti wrote: > Hello, > > I am having some problems to connect to my ISP (verizon.net) and was > hoping that someone could help me... > > I just did a BIG "apt-get upgrade" (apparently even the Linux version was > upgraded to a testing one), and I was prompted many times about > configuration files, and instead of keeping mine (I thought that the > package developers would know better than me) and used the ones that came > with the package instead. (I never had a problem before this upgrade.)
Well, if you modified any of them accepting the package maintainers would clobber yours. dpkg might make backups though, I've never looked. > In any case, when I try to connect, I get connected and disconnected right > after. A couple of times I could connect for like a minute... and when I > use the apt-get, I get connected while it download the necessary files, > but as soon as it is done, I get disconnected. Sep 16 15:35:52 debian diald[296]: Disconnected. Call duration 3225 seconds. Well, it looks like you managed to connect for a while at one point. You're aware that you're using diald, right? Diald is a demand dialer that will only bring up your PPP link when there is outbound traffic, like so: Sep 16 14:41:41 debian diald[296]: Trigger: udp \ 92.168.0.1/32768 128.83.185.41/53 Sep 16 14:41:41 debian diald[296]: Calling site 192.168.0.2 It will drop the link after it has been idle for some brief period of time, which you can configure. > I put some log files at > http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/finotti/linux/logs > if someone is willing to take a look... (you can see a short connection, > that was done by "pon", and one long, done with "apt-get") If you'd rather connect manually all the time with pon/poff, you'll want to turn diald off "/etc/init.d/diald stop" or completely remove it "dpkg --remove diald" which will remove the program, but keep your config files. > I don't think it is the modem or the provider, since I can connect with, > well, Windows... > > Sorry to bother you with that... I would really appreciate any help > though. If I missed the point somewhere and I'm off base, let me know. > Thanks a lot, > > Luis