Before establishing your connection attempt, open another window (logged
in as super-user) and do
tail -f /var/log/messages /var/log/warn
This will spit out plenty of information about what's going on. Lots of
the distributions will have too short of a timeout in the chatscript. On
SuSE 6.0, for example, it's TIMEOUT 5 if you use their generic
chatscript. If your connection takes longer to establish, the timeout
will mysteriously kill the modem connection with no explanation in the
logs. Mine works fine at 20 seconds, and I suspect that it could be
longer depending on our ISP's equipment on the terminal server side.
Hope this helps a little. -Harold
On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Tanguy CARRABIN wrote:
> Hi,
> I've tried, using the instructuions given a long time ago from one of
> you (Farrell Kenimer), to connect to my internet provider.
> I created the executable file called ppp-go, the .pppscript file and
> checked the hosts and resolv.conf files to meet my and my isp's
> requirements.
> When I execute ppp-go, i can see my external modem lightning up the RS
> and TR lights but there, everything stops and my modem never gets the
> phone line so never dial the phonenumber.
> Can you see what i've done wrong ?
> (I'm using RedHat 5.1 on a stand-alone PC machine.)
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Tanguy
>
> p.s: a totaly different questions: is there a standart command to
> uninstall a program or ereasing its installed directory would get rid of
> the program just as well ?
>
>
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