On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:31:55 +1200 Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Monday 28 August 2006 12:27, Nick Rout wrote: > > It is very unclear to me whether it is dying because of failed > > authentication, or because it fails to start ppp after successfully > > authenticating > I think it only manages to dial the number, and make an attempt to create a > data connection, but fails completely.
no, IIRC it establishes a connection, or else (1) it wouldn'tbe saying CONNECT (2) it wouldn't be sending LCP config requests (3) I'm not sure, bnut I don't think it produces this line: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyLTM0 Until the modem has connected (don't quote me on number 3) >Would not the fact that Andrew had it > going with an external modem, and no other changes, mean that the > authentication setup is working correctly? Possibly, but don't forget, as my experience yesterday showed (failed first time, succeeded thereafter) the problem may not always be the same. > > My own opinion is that there is probably a kernel / modem / gcc versions > inconsistency. IMHO that is wrong, it is all built with the same system, its all part of the same distro. > > At this point I'd be very tempted to build a recent stable kernel and then > the > open source module and interface shim for the closed modem module using a gcc > from the 3.4 series. > > Whether or not this is feasible under the version of Mepis I know not, but I > do know that doing it would be a 'somewhat time-consuming exercise' to put it > very mildly. a waste of time IMHO, but about 30 minutes compiling plus 30 minutes futzling - say 2 hours. I would have thought, however, given that the driver and the kernel are all compiled for the same release of the same distro, that it shouldn't make a difference. > > If this whole schemozzel fails to prove that binary kernels, modules, and > distributions of Linux are totally undesirable, I don't know what does. > No it doesn't, because it is known that this driver from this distro works. (By the way I agree with you that binary drivers are a pain, but not that this episode confirms it. What would you change if you had the source? We don't know what is failing. > btw, Do we have another Gentoo installfest on the horizon? > Nah, its soo easy now, no fun in that! -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
