Thank you!! I can now connect to my ISP and surf the web!!
The next adventure in my odyssey is to set up Apache. Some one was kind
enough to send me a CD with the latest binary release of Apache... My
question is how do I install it on my PC?
Thanks for all the help.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Olszewski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, June 27, 1999 7:19 PM
To: Chris Job; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Dialing my ISP
General advice:
1. Try to dial your ISP from a terminal app, such as minicom or seyon,
and
see what happens.
2. Check your logs (probably /var/log/messages and /var/log/debug) to
see
what pppd and its dialer (chat? you don't say) report about the attempt.
if
you aren't getting any reporting there, change the options supplied to
pppd
to include "debug" and "kebug 0", and make sure chat is being run in
verbose
mode (this may involve adding a "-v" to the script line that invokes
it).
3. If (1) above doesn't work, try dialing your ISP literally by hand,
from
an actual phone plugged into the same jack you are using for the modem
--
make sure you have the right number and the line works.
4. Make sure you have the modem connected properly -- if it has two
jacks on
the back, the one (probably) marked "line" is the one that connects to
the
wall, not the one (probably) marked "phone".
Clarifying questions:
1. You say "all I hear is some clicking sounds on the modem". Do you
mean
that exactly? No dial tone? Do DTMF (Touch-Tone) tones? No ringing
tones? If
so, then you're not getting a dial tone and the modem is trying to use
pulse
dialing. Check your connection between the modem and the phone line, and
check your dialing string (DTMF is ATDT, pulse is ATDP). If that's not
what
you mean, be more specific about what you do and don't hear.
2. You say you use "Linux 5.2". No such thing. Some Linux
*distributions*
(Red Hat, SuSE, maybe Mandrake or PHT's TurboLinux) have 5.2 versions,
but
not Linux itself. So which distribution are you actually using?
3. In up-to-date distributions, the use of the /dev/cua* devices has
been
deprecated in favor of use of the /dev/ttyS* devices for both incoming
and
outgoing connections. You might check if that is causing you any
problems.
4. "statserial"? Is this a (distribution-specific) app I'm unfamiliar
with,
or did you mean "setserial"?
At 05:25 PM 6/27/99 -0400, Chris Job wrote:
>Hey Folks...
>I'm totally lost..... I think I configured my PC (Linux 5.2) correctly
>to be able to dial my ISP, but to no avail. I know it recognizes the
>modem (generic 144) on com 2/cua1 (used statserial utility to check)
>Also used modemtool to configure everything...... When I attempt to
>connect, all I hear is some clicking sounds on the modem, I don't hear
>the usual high pitched sounds of modems talking.
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------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA 94303-3603 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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