erock23175 wrote,
>I have? gnome-ppp all set up, it recognizes my modem, and even dials
>out when I try to sign online. But it then disconnects immediately
>afterward!!?? So far I have yet to find an answer on the web, you guys
>got anything??
See if you can add the option "debug" to your PPP configuration. On my
system, I do this by editing /etc/ppp/options and adding the word "debug"
on a line all by itself. Gnome-ppp probably puts it somewhere else, but
there should be some way to get the debug option into the configuration.
Once you've got debug mode turned on, PPP will log a transcript of what
it's trying to do. On my system the transcript shows up in the file
/var/log/messages. (Again, it could be in a different place on your
system.)
As an example, a few weeks ago I had a dialup failure that produced this
transcript in /var/log/messages:
Jul 3 22:06:40 anunnaki pppd[2837]: pppd 2.4.4 started by root, uid 0
Jul 3 22:06:41 anunnaki chat[2839]: timeout set to 60 seconds
Jul 3 22:06:41 anunnaki chat[2839]: abort on (ERROR)
Jul 3 22:06:41 anunnaki chat[2839]: abort on (BUSY)
Jul 3 22:06:41 anunnaki chat[2839]: abort on (NO CARRIER)
Jul 3 22:06:41 anunnaki chat[2839]: abort on (NO DIALTONE)
Jul 3 22:06:41 anunnaki chat[2839]: send (AT&F1L0H0^M)
Jul 3 22:06:42 anunnaki chat[2839]: expect (OK)
Jul 3 22:06:42 anunnaki chat[2839]: AT&F1L0H0^M^M
Jul 3 22:06:42 anunnaki chat[2839]: OK
Jul 3 22:06:42 anunnaki chat[2839]: -- got it
Jul 3 22:06:42 anunnaki chat[2839]: send (atdt6844070^M)
Jul 3 22:06:42 anunnaki chat[2839]: timeout set to 75 seconds
Jul 3 22:06:42 anunnaki chat[2839]: expect (CONNECT)
Jul 3 22:06:42 anunnaki chat[2839]: ^M
Jul 3 22:07:08 anunnaki chat[2839]: atdt6844070^M^M
Jul 3 22:07:08 anunnaki chat[2839]: CONNECT
Jul 3 22:07:08 anunnaki chat[2839]: -- got it
Jul 3 22:07:08 anunnaki pppd[2837]: Serial connection established.
Jul 3 22:07:08 anunnaki pppd[2837]: Using interface ppp0
Jul 3 22:07:08 anunnaki pppd[2837]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem
Jul 3 22:08:00 anunnaki pppd[2837]: CHAP authentication failed:
Jul 3 22:08:00 anunnaki pppd[2837]: Connection terminated.
Jul 3 22:08:00 anunnaki pppd[2837]: Exit
This showed that the modem was successfully dialing and connecting, but
the connection was failing a the "CHAP authentication failed" line. "CHAP
authentication" is when it verifies the username and password. I hadn't
changed the username and password in my configuration, so I concluded that
my ISP's password server had probably crashed. (Note the 52-second
gap between "Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem" and "CHAP authentication
failed"...that was the wait for the non-responding password server.)
The next day I got a slightly different transcript:
Jul 4 16:30:39 anunnaki pppd[2670]: pppd 2.4.4 started by root, uid 0
Jul 4 16:30:40 anunnaki chat[2672]: timeout set to 60 seconds
Jul 4 16:30:40 anunnaki chat[2672]: abort on (ERROR)
Jul 4 16:30:40 anunnaki chat[2672]: abort on (BUSY)
Jul 4 16:30:40 anunnaki chat[2672]: abort on (NO CARRIER)
Jul 4 16:30:40 anunnaki chat[2672]: abort on (NO DIALTONE)
Jul 4 16:30:40 anunnaki chat[2672]: send (AT&F1L0H0^M)
Jul 4 16:30:40 anunnaki chat[2672]: expect (OK)
Jul 4 16:30:40 anunnaki chat[2672]: AT&F1L0H0^M^M
Jul 4 16:30:40 anunnaki chat[2672]: OK
Jul 4 16:30:40 anunnaki chat[2672]: -- got it
Jul 4 16:30:40 anunnaki chat[2672]: send (atdt6844070^M)
Jul 4 16:30:40 anunnaki chat[2672]: timeout set to 75 seconds
Jul 4 16:30:40 anunnaki chat[2672]: expect (CONNECT)
Jul 4 16:30:40 anunnaki chat[2672]: ^M
Jul 4 16:30:44 anunnaki chat[2672]: atdt6844070^M^M
Jul 4 16:30:44 anunnaki chat[2672]: NO DIALTONE
Jul 4 16:30:44 anunnaki chat[2672]: -- failed
Jul 4 16:30:44 anunnaki chat[2672]: Failed (NO DIALTONE)
Jul 4 16:30:45 anunnaki pppd[2670]: Exit.
Aargh. That wasn't a good week.
This one turned out to be the phone company's fault. Notice the "NO
DIALTONE" message...my phone didn't work at all that afternoon, and I had
to go to my office and call Qwest's service number from my work phone.
If you can obtain a similar transcript of your problem, post it here...it
will help a LOT in diagnosing what's going wrong.
- Neil Parker
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