On Wednesday 16 August 2006 22:24, Andrew Errington wrote: > > He has a 2.6.15 kernel & the ltmodem-8.31 matches it. > > > > everything seems to be ok, except that the /etc/ppp/kppp-options file is > > not present. Did anybody actually get kppp set up? > > Yes. It was working with my external modem. > > Wouldn't /etc/ppp/kpp-options be a template file? I don't think so. I had this very hassle with Warwick's system, and in this case got a popup in which it stated it wanted a 'noauth' line in /etc/ppp/kppp-options. I gave it what it was asking for and presto wh had a connection.
> The specific user's kppp > settings would be in their home directory. > > Hmm. Just checked- it is ~/.kde/share/config/kppprc > > > To avoid any more hassle for Alan I have suggested that he buys either an > > external modem or the DSE XH1154 mentioned by Ross. The problem with this > > approach is that we then have a modem which is unsupported by the current > > kernel in Alan's Mepis. > > <snip> > > > === > > Bummer! > > > > So it looks like an external modem from Computer Future or somewhere. > > Anybody on the list got a 56k external dial up modem they could sell to > > Alan? > > <snip> > > Yes, but other people have this working. I'll admit it's sometimes more > cost-effective to give up, but, but, but. I can't resist a challenge... Whilst I do appreciate the point, sometimes it's better to surrender gracefully. I think we/you could do that without losing face after trying the following ( in ease of difficulty ): 1) That the Country is set to NZ with the "AT+GCI=7E" init string. 2) making sure that /etc/ppp/kppp-options exists and has has a 'noauth' line; 3) The latest ltmodem drivers intended for a 2.6.x kernel from http://ltmodem.heby.de/; btw, he has got a build environment installed, gcc and make, anyway. > > Previously, I have found wvdial to be 'magical'. > > Could someone grep the Packages file on the CD to see if Mepis have it on > > the CD? > > Nothing obvious. On the CD there are boot files and then a big image file. > No packages file that I can see. It might be in the big image file. I wonder if somewone could boot a Mepis CD and have a poke around to see if there is either a wvdial .deb package in the CD's repository area or whether it's mentioned in a Packages file which just might appear in the Live CD file set. Otherwise one of us could get a wvdial .deb package for him could we not? Where is the mepis repository? You know I never had all this **** getting slmodem to work on my ThinkPad under Gentoo. :-) but I wouldn't even nightmare along that train of thought now would I? -- CS
