On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:01, you wrote: > A thread just started on NZLUG about kppp and xtra. May be worth > looking at the solutions Vik used: > > http://www.linux.net.nz/lists/NZLUG/2006/08/0318.html
No, no, no! Not if you are using Mepis (which Alan is). Vik says do this (and he is using Kubuntu): 1) Set the modem to 56K (it was set at just under a megabaud). 2) Set the PPP connection to use CHAP 3) Add noauth to the PPP options 4) Run kppp as root to allow noauth to be used (I set him up with kdesu) 5) Disable call logging, which is set to Argentinian parameters. I'll say that kppp is properly set up under Mepis and 'just works' unless you've got a hokey winmodem. What you do is enter the ISP phone number, your username and password, and select your modem port (if it's not /dev/modem). Let's go through Vik's points: 1) The modem speed is the speed the host talks to the modem. Any speed above the maximum expected speed will work. The "modem-to-modem" speed is negotiated by the modems themselves. 2) Ok, maybe you need CHAP for Xtra, but kppp defaults to "PAP/CHAP", which works for freenet and ihug (but not Orcon, as Rob Fisher discovered). 3) Yes, but Mepis has this in there already. 4) No. (Why would you???) 5) Disable call logging if you want. Or not. It doesn't matter. I'll re-arrange this reply and send it to nzlug, for Vik's reference, but really it's just muddying the water. For Alan the problem is the modem- proven by connecting an external modem, changing kppp to point at /dev/ttyS0 and not /dev/modem *and changing nothing else*. Andrew
