Hey cheers all for your suggestions so far. Appreciate your help! Am still stuck, so thought I'd backtrack and explain what I've done so far. Basically followed through the instructions on http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=93852 except used the ltmodem-3.81b1.tar.gz package as suggested by ebonflame. Thought this would mean I would be okay with gcc 4.0 instead of 3.4. However, installation failed without 3.4 and I had to install. No problems however with further installation and I thought everything was sweet when my modem was detected by gnome-ppp and dialed. But alas... it don't want to stay connected. Grrgh.
Any further thoughts as to how I could diagnose and sort this problem would be cool... Damn, I wish I hadn't bought a winmodem!!! Cheers Matt > Matthew Whiting wrote: >> Okay, from /var/log/syslog: >> >> Feb 24 13:27:42 localhost kernel: [4300481.877000] PPP generic driver >> version 2.4.2 >> Feb 24 13:27:42 localhost pppd[9069]: pppd 2.4.3 started by matthew, uid >> 1000 >> Feb 24 13:27:42 localhost pppd[9069]: Using interface ppp0 >> Feb 24 13:27:42 localhost pppd[9069]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyLTM0 >> Feb 24 13:27:44 localhost pppd[9069]: Modem hangup >> Feb 24 13:27:44 localhost pppd[9069]: Connection terminated. >> Feb 24 13:27:44 localhost pppd[9069]: Exit. >> >> So, yep, two seconds and it disconnects. That's all I can come up with >> from the logs. >> >> Cheers >> Matt >> >>> On my distro ppp logs to various files depending on the type of output >>> in; >>> >>> /var/log/daemons/ >>> >>> Cheers Ross Drummond >>> >>> On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:49, Nick Rout wrote: >>>> somewhere in /var/log i would think. >>>> >>>> if you can't find it quickly run: >>>> >>>> cd /var/log >>>> grep ppp * -r >>>> >>>> and you should find ppp's logs. >>>> > > Matt, here is my /etc/ppp/options, this was given me by a kindly Telstra > tech some years ago to deal with problems I had connecting. give it a try. > > ==== cut here ==== > lock > noauth > defaultroute > ipcp-max-configure 65 > ipcp-accept-local > ipcp-accept-remote > idle 600 > ==== cut here ==== > > John > >
