On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:41:49 +1200 Andrew Errington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:33, you wrote: > > thanks a lot Andrew now I can continue to play and see what I get, I > > will let you know if something startling happens (Like working--<Grin>) > > Alan > > You might have to fix the "NoEC" problem too. I seem to recall that popped > up on connect, and it was mentioned on one of the help sites we visited. > > Google for "NoEC ltmodem" for links to discussions of this problem. > > A This thread puzzles me. Correct me if I am wrong but the modem connects, gives a CONNECT messge (which incidentally says NoEC). It then dies on LCP (ie the initialisation of the ppp protocol). Surely if the modem connects and so on the country code must be OK. I understood that the country code tells the modem what dial tones, ring tones etc the country uses so that those tones may be interpreted correctly. However if you are up to the LCP page you are past intepreting the dial tone and ring tone. I get LCP errors on my ADSL account too - it usually means there is an authentication problem. NoEC means "No error correction" - in other words the modemsd have not been able to agree on an error correction protocol. There is a file called NoEC.txt in the ltmodem source (which is carrried over to various packages I have been able to find on the web). It suggests: "If a ppp connection if not sustained, and the output from # tail -f /var/log/messages & includes "NoEC" and/or a block like: ^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G then try adding this line to /etc/ppp/options asyncmap FFFFFFFF " Worth a try, and worth reading the whole file too. What I'd really like to see is someone going round to Allan's, firing up minicom, dialling the ISP and looking at the output. If it is script autenticatuion it is often possible to authenticate, then you will see something like "ppp starting now" with a whole lot of garbage to follow. (the garbage is ppp protocol stuff). You can then actually attach ppp at that stage, but its not much of a method of getting onto the internet on any regular basis. I cannot recall what you see in minicom if pap or chap are the auth methods, something unintellgible IIRC. All this is why I gave up trying to run modems in a desktop years ago. I found a modem that worked in linux, put it in a small cheap machine and installed a router distro like freesco, smoothwall or ipcop. After that any computer with an ethernet card, a tcpip stack and a dhcp client can connect to the net. Also modems are going the way of the dinosaur with other connection methods. A lot of grass roots open source software is created by a geek with a need. Most geeks have boadband, and no need to make the modem work. Having said that laptop users often really want their modems to work, and have little choice about what is inside the machine. I have had two laptops with ltmodems, and both worked fine. I am not sure what the current laptop has, but no doubt it will make itself known at some time.
