Hi there! My external modem only manages to connect every second time I'm starting pppd. The Chat script looks like this: TIMEOUT 30 ABORT "NO CARRIER" ABORT "NO DIALTONE" ABORT ERROR ABORT "NO ANSWER" ABORT BUSY ABORT "Username/Password Incorrect" "" +++ATZ TIMEOUT 20 OK ATD010980193434 TIMEOUT 10 CONNECT "" Here are two sessions from /var/log/messages, the first successful, the second not: Oct 26 12:27:15 baer pppd[1854]: pppd 2.3.8 started by tom, uid 500 Oct 26 12:27:16 baer chat[1855]: timeout set to 20 seconds Oct 26 12:27:16 baer chat[1855]: abort on (NO CARRIER) Oct 26 12:27:16 baer chat[1855]: abort on (NO DIALTONE) Oct 26 12:27:16 baer chat[1855]: abort on (ERROR) Oct 26 12:27:16 baer chat[1855]: abort on (NO ANSWER) Oct 26 12:27:16 baer chat[1855]: abort on (BUSY) Oct 26 12:27:16 baer chat[1855]: abort on (Username/Password Incorrect) Oct 26 12:27:16 baer chat[1855]: send (+++ATZ^M) Oct 26 12:27:16 baer chat[1855]: timeout set to 10 seconds Oct 26 12:27:16 baer chat[1855]: expect (OK) Oct 26 12:27:17 baer chat[1855]: ATZ^M^M Oct 26 12:27:17 baer chat[1855]: OK Oct 26 12:27:17 baer chat[1855]: -- got it Oct 26 12:27:17 baer chat[1855]: send (ATD010980193434^M) Oct 26 12:27:17 baer chat[1855]: timeout set to 10 seconds Oct 26 12:27:17 baer chat[1855]: expect (CONNECT) Oct 26 12:27:17 baer chat[1855]: ^M Oct 26 12:27:19 baer chat[1855]: ATD010980193434^M^M Oct 26 12:27:19 baer chat[1855]: CONNECT Oct 26 12:27:19 baer chat[1855]: -- got it Oct 26 12:27:19 baer chat[1855]: send (^M) Oct 26 12:27:19 baer pppd[1854]: Serial connection established. Oct 26 12:27:01 baer pppd[1851]: pppd 2.3.8 started by tom, uid 500 [snip, same as above] Oct 26 12:27:02 baer chat[1852]: ATZ^M^M Oct 26 12:27:02 baer chat[1852]: OK^M Oct 26 12:27:12 baer chat[1852]: alarm Oct 26 12:27:12 baer chat[1852]: Failed Oct 26 12:27:12 baer pppd[1851]: Connect script failed Oct 26 12:27:13 baer pppd[1851]: Exit. Initstring is ok (worked every time with kppp), ATD too. Already tried different time-out settings but this doesn't seem to be the problem: I don't understand why there's an EOL in the second session when the modem is expected to dial. Ideas? Regards tom -- "This program can destroy data, and is not yet safe for general use." (from 'freshmeat') Thomas 'tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----MandrakeUser.Org-Webservant---- UMS: +49-(0)89-1488-208756 fon: +49-(0)30-45809013
