On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:39:42 +1300
John Rye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the words:
> 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 ....)
Hmm, thank you. I will give these things a try and see what happens.
This problem is driving me totally nuts.
Adrian
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