> With the Redhat 5.1 distribution the Ricochet wireless modem on my
> Toshiba 730XCDT laptop worked fine.
>
> With Redhat 6.0, it establishes a connection, can look up hosts
> by name, and APPEARS to open telnet and ftp sessions to them.
> However the connections themselves just hang (though they work
> from other machines).
>
> For example,
> # telnet arbitraryhost.com
> Trying 206.161.etc.etc
> Connected to arbitraryhost.com
> Escape character is '^]'.
>
> And then nothing will happen. You can still get the telnet client
> to respond with the escape character. The same thing happens
> opening a telnet session from a working machine TO the laptop in
> question.
>
> However, ping works both directions, either by name or IP address!
>
> Has anyone seen this failure mode before?
>
> An interesting co-incidence is that I used a Japanese distribution
> of Redhat from a magazine and someone I think might be in Japan
> just wrote he is having a similar problem.
>
> I'm typing these logs by hand so be patient if there is a typo:
> From /var/log/messages: (omitting anything obviously irrelevant)
>
> Aug 2 10:32:15 (none) chat[294] OK
> (rest of chat omitted because it worked)
> Aug 2 10:32:15 (none) kernel: PPP version 2.3.3 (demand dialling)
> Aug 2 10:32:12 (none) network: Bringing up interface lo succeeded
> Aug 2 10:32:12 (none) network: Bringing up interface ppp0 succeeded
> Aug 2 10:32:15 (none) kernel: PPP line discipline registered.
> Aug 2 10:32:15 (none) kernel: registered device ppp0.
> Aug 2 10:32:16 (none) pppd[223]: Using interface ppp0
> Aug 2 10:32:16 (none) pppd[223]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0
> Aug 2 10:32:20 (none) kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x1000-0x17ff:clean.
> Aug 2 10:32:20 (none) kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff:excluding
> 0x120-0x127 0x220-0x22f 0x378-0x37f 0x388-0x38f 0x480-0x48f 0x4d0-0x4d7
> Aug 2 10:32:20 (none) kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff:clean.
>
> (the modprobe failures are interesting:)
> Aug 2 10:32:20 (none) modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-21
> Aug 2 10:32:20 (none) modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-26
> Aug 2 10:32:21 (none) inetd: inetd startup succeeded
> Aug 2 10:32:21 (none) modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-24
> Aug 2 10:32:21 (none) local IP address 206.253.200.97
> Aug 2 10:32:21 (none) local IP address 206.253.200.98
> Aug 2 10:32:21 (none) named[362]: starting. named 8.2 Wed Mar 31 10:57:12
> EST 1999 (etc)
> Aug 2 10:32:21 (none) named[362]: cache zone "" (IN) loaded (serial 0)
> Aug 2 10:32:22 (none) named[362]: Zone "ricochet.net" (file ricochet.net):
> No default TTL set using SOA minimum instead
> (etc.)
> Aug 2 10:32:22 (none) named[362]: listening on [127.0.0.1].53 (lo)
> Aug 2 10:32:22 (none) named[362]: listening on [206.253.200.97].53 (ppp0)
> Aug 2 10:32:22 (none) named[362]: forwarding source address is
> [0.0.0.0].1024
> Aug 2 10:32:22 (none) named[382]: Ready to answer queries.
> Aug 2 10:32:22 (none) named: named startup succeeded
> (later)
> Aug 2 10:32:33 (none) linuxconf: Linuxconf final setup
> Aug 2 10:32:33 (none) rc: Starting linuxconf succeeded
>
>
> Any help you could provide would be appreciated.
>
>
> Michael James
>
>
>
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