On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 20:16:45 -0700 Linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone offer insight into this situation: > > I am using MDK 9.1 and have an external modem on ttyS0 (com 1). > > 1. With KPPP I can connect as the user, but I keep losing my > connection and it returns an error code 16 (the modem hung up). > > I don't have any hang up problems under windows98, it works just fine > there. > > 2. With wvdial I can only connect as root. I also get hangups and > error code 16. When connected with wvdial as root I can not "see" the > connection as the user. Example, Mozilla can not connect to internet > even tho the connection is active. > > 3. When I try to connect with wvdial as user I get "can not open > /dev/modem. device or resource busy" even tho it is clearly not busy. > As stated, KPPP can find and access the modem just fine. > > file/device attributes: > > /dev/modem > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root /dev/modem -> ttyS0 > > /dev/ttyS0 > crw-rw---- 1 skippi tty > > > 'skippi' is my user account. I'm not sure why ttyS0 is owned by > skippi and not root. Maybe that is part of the problem? > > Any ideas or suggestions? Other things I should check? Thank you. > Adrian
Adrian, try editing (as root) your /etc/ppp/options to the following: # /etc/ppp/options lock debug crtscts noauth defaultroute lcp-max-configure 45 ipcp-accept-local ipcp-accept-remote idle 600 # eof The line beginning icp-max- is the one which reduced my error 16 hangups. My other suggestion is to copy wvdials' recommended init string into kppp and to increase the 'guard time' (in modem commands panel) to maximum (255). Increasing the other timeouts in the kppp config panels may also help. Cheers John (now if only I could get my pcmcia modem to work ....)
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