Brilliant - it's working! Thanks for all the help over the last few days, in the end all it was was CD wasn't connected in my null modem cable. I was getting mislead because the same cable worked to connect as a terminal. I would have nipped down the shops and bought one by now but I'm 30 miles off shore somewhere off Oman at the moment! Thanks, I've learn quite a bit too. Dan. > > My null modem cable is made by swapping TD and RD, RTS and CTS, DSR and > > DTR, SG runs to SG. As I mentioned, this is fine for logging on via a > > terminal. In desperation I've tried 9 pin and 25 pin versions. > > I am sorry. I meant to look up my trusty spec for null modem cables, > but got distracted. You are leaving CD aka RLSD floating. pppd will > never see a carrier, so it will never try to do anything. Instead of > crossing DSR and DTR, short them together at each end and cross that to > CD/RLSD at the other end. This will make the lines behave as if there > were 2 modems mediating between the DTE's, and the whole lash-up should > come to life.
