The log extract you provided ends with these lines:
>Jul 16 00:05:14 HighLander pppd[138]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS2
>Jul 16 00:05:14 HighLander pppd[138]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap
>0x0> <magic 0xf876ba68> <pcomp> <accomp>]
>Jul 16 00:05:41 HighLander last message repeated 9 times
>Jul 16 00:05:45 HighLander pppd[138]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
>Jul 16 00:05:45 HighLander pppd[138]: Connection terminated.
At first glance, this seems to say that the ISP isn't responding to your
attempts (LCP packets) to set up a ppp connection. So let's begin by asking
about a couple of things you didn't mention.
1. Have you made ppp connections to this ISP from some other computer? How?
2. Have you attempted to connect to this ISP using minicom? If so, at what
point in the connection process do you get the ppp "line noise" response?
3. How does your ISP expect to authenticate? Your logs say that you have
chat (or whatever dialer Debian uses) returning control to pppd as soon as
it gets the CONNECT message from the modem. This is fine if the ISP uses PAP
or CHAP to authenticate, but not if it expects a userid and password before
starting ppp.
The import of these is: do you know that the ISP supports ppp? If yes, do
you know that it supports ppp connections by way of userid/password
authentication (rather than PAP or CHAP)?
If that part is okay, there may be something wrong with the LCP packets you
are sending out. This is tricky to diagnose, and the folks on linux-ppp may
be better equipped to help you than this list. But in any case, the next
step there is to run pppd with "debug" and "kdebug 0" both enabled. The
second of these will cause the details of LCP negotiation to be recorded in
/var/log/debug (or wherever you have syslogd writing debug output to).
Or there may be some other problem with your pppd options. You don't say how
you run pppd to connect, but from the logs I'd guess you're using a shell
script that has pppd call chat. In any case, you'd also want to report the
pppd options you specify, either on the line that calls pppd (as
command-line options) or in an options file.
At 12:39 AM 7/16/99 -0500, Debian Linux wrote:
>I am trying to install Debian, I have the 2 cd set, but i want to do it from
>online. my problem is that it never connects while installing.
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