On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, sreangsu acharyya wrote:
> couldnt look up the error code as I am not on linux. Strangely the pppd
> man pages on the net dont seem to have the error/exit codes. But if my
> memory serves me well, the list of error codes in the man page of my box (
> rhl 6.2) wasnt that long to reach 242.
>
> What does your man page say.
Yeah i checked it, the exit code gone upto 20 something only not even
42.
> > Also in my pppd options file i have given the option
> > passive
>
> Sukrit, thanks for this, I had been resorting to brute forcing more lcp
> sends, to give the server enough time. This is definetely better.
tell you what that *passive*...never works for me ;-)
> > Help please...
> > any other way to connect to the net from the command line???
>
> tell you what, connect manually i.e through minicom or kppp to see what
> exactly is happening. Maybe that will help, and look up what 242 means.
> ( 42 is an altogether different ball game ;) BTW keep a "debug" in your
> /etc/ppp/optons or ...ppp/peers/wvdial.
i am able to connect using kppp, but its too much trouble firing up X just
to check my mail on my dated sys (P100)...
could you help me with this wvdial???
TIA
sukrit
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