Larry Price wrote,
>try rerunning pppconfig and making sure that the connection settings
>are as they should be.
>
>If that doesn't cure it, look through /etc/event.d and make sure that
>it is not launching a getty on ttyS0
>
>Also look to make sure there is a /dev/ttyS0 and that pppd thinks that
>that's where the modem is.
>
>On 8/26/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> For some reason I can't stay online anymore. The computer sees the modem,
>> dials the modem, waits for carrier and then dumps the connection for lack of
>> one. I know it isn't that the computer can't see the modem as I can hear and
>> see it dialing out and achieving a connection, I know it isn't my provider
>> due to the fact that A) I'm signed on right now on the same account on my
>> virii-ridden Windoze machine, and B) it was working just fine before. I'm
>> convinced that some file got messed with when we did that serial network
>> set-up, I just don't know what. Any help???
Personally, I doubt the problem is in /etc/event.d or the lack of a
/dev/ttyS0. If it were either of those, the errer would appear before
the modem even tried to dial. Besides, in the /etc/event.d case, we
verified before we left on Thursday that the getty we had running on
/dev/ttyS0 was gone.
My advice would be to look in the log files. Become root, and do this:
cd /var/log
less messages
This should display your system message log on the screen. Type "G" to go
to the end, and then "?pppd" to search backward for the most recent
message from PPP. The error that's causing the problem should be
somewhere near that point. (You can press the space bar to go forward a
screenful, or "b" to go backward a screenful. Press "q" to get back to
the command line.)
What does the error message say?
(If you can't find an error message in "less messages", try the above
with "less syslog".)
Also, what does the error sound like? Normally when I connect I hear the
dialtone, followed by the tones for the digits of phone number, maybe a
ring or two, and then a few seconds of steady tones, and a bunch of
static, and then I'm connected. How far into that sequence does yours get
before it fails?
- Neil Parker
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