On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:04:37AM +0530, Binand Raj S. wrote: > On Saturday 19 January 2002 15:47 pm, USM Bish wrote: > > > Returning not ok!! > > > --> Disconnecting at Sun Jan 20 01:57:44 2002 > > > > This is a rather unusual problem. My feeling is that your > > ISP details are not correctly entered in /etc/resolv.conf. > > How is the resolv.conf file related to dialing into an ISP? > Can you please explain? AFACT, it is the resolver configu- > ration file, and has usually nothing to do with wvdial con- > necting. >
For some reason, not known to me, wvdial connects need a full /etc/resolv.conf. This is a snip from original wvdial develo- per tarball (wvfaq.txt). ------------------------<snip>------------------------------ 3. Quick start. Assuming everything works perfectly, the following will get you on-line if you're running as root. - wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf - vi /etc/wvdial.conf [edit username/password/phone] - vi /etc/resolv.conf [edit nameservers] - wvdial -----------------------</snip>------------------------------ As I stated earlier, this was just a shot in the dark. Cannot see many reasons why it should fail. Suresh has already given the lead of log files. The same wvdial docs also state: ----------------------<snip>-------------------------------- 5. It dials and then pppd dies for no reason. - Check the log file! It will typically be /var/log/messages or /var/log/ppp.log depending on your system. Scan to the end and look for anything marked pppd. Do not send the com- plete file when asking for help! - Check the /etc/ppp/options file. If you set up pppd before and added any lines in here you may well need to take them out due to the way wvdial accesses pppd. - Use the 'script' command to capture the exact output when wvdial runs. - Check you're using the correct username/password. -----------------------</snip>------------------------------ The documentation indicates that resolver aspects in options file and resolv.conf seem to be important for wvdial. Got to go through the source code to find out why ... Bish -- : ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### Sub : Console gibberish (#3) LOST #132 To clear console of gibberish (eg. after cat of a tar.gz file) if your shell is bash, type in Ctrl-V-Ctrl-O (^v^o) [Return] ! Conversely, to ruin someone's happiness ^v^n ... and vamoose ! ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>#################################### : _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
