On Tuesday 22 August 2006 10:07, Andrew Errington wrote: > On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:54, you wrote: > > I was just checking my windows connection and note that it says that my > > ihug connection uses PAP, > > I am curreently set for CHAP/PAP is that likely to make a major > > difference? Alan > > No. Agreed.
> If you recall, we were able to successfully connect with the settings as > they were, using an external modem. This would indicate to me that there is an 'inconsistency' between pppd and kppp together and/or the underlying ltmodem software modem driver. I have been scouting around the 'Net courtesy Google, and found that there is some talk about the software modem having to have the hardware handshaking setup using the setserial utility, which is currently not on Alan's machine. I find this surprising as kppp has a handshaking type setting. Perhaps it does not work properly with ltmodem software modems? The questions therefore are "Is setserial on the Mepis CD"? If so, where do I RTFM for details of how install it. If not where do I RTFM for details of how to install it from my lappie's http server, or perhaps a USB memory stick? linmodems.technion.ac.il seems to have come alive again albeit at dial-up speed. I have got ltmodem-2.6.12-10-686_8.31b1_i386.deb from there as well as the source files. I hope the .deb will install into Alan's machine. Anybody know if the kernel revision and gcc versions used for the ltmodem-2.6.12-10-686_8.31b1_i386.deb and the Mepis kernel on Alan's machine are 'rough enough' to work? > By all means, select 'PAP' to be consistent with your Windows settings. > I'm glad you've started poking around- you might find some modem setup > strings in Windows too. They tend to be a bit cryptic though... Indeed! Essentially I think we need to ensure that the Country setting is correct using the AT+GCI=7E init. string That the modem thinks it is to use hardware handshaking. Google and I can't find this init. string. Any ideas? If anybody who has Debian/Ubuntu/Mepis special knowledge would like to join the fray at Alan's place tomorrow afternoon I'm sure they would be more than merely welcome. -- CS
