Hi all,
In my endless quest to have Internet supporrt under LM, I've been trying
to configure pppd and my (win)modem to acesss my ISP and I ran into some
trouble.
When I tried kppp the program would just hang -sometimes it informed me that
ppp was run without the debug option and that I should turn that on. I
couldn't hung up the modem afterwards- perhaps because I don''t know how.
Then , following the ppp-HOWTO, I tried to connect with minicom.
Everything goes fine till I try to start ppp from a shell prompt- then the
system freezes completely. While I figure that even a Linux sys can be
frozen by a non-working modem, since it handles IRQs and such, I was not
really expecting it.
For info, I'm starting minicom, dialing into my ISP with ATDT, and then,
after the connect statement, I press ENTER and when the garbage (that
accordingly to ppp HOWTO means the remote sys is starting a PAP ppp) comes I
quit minicom without reseting the modem and start ppd with
# pppd -d -detach /dev/modem 38400 &
The system always hangs afterwards.
I have two main doubts: can these freezes be caused by a misconfiguration,
i.e, the modem init string, some option in ppp or minicom, etc, or is it a
telltale sign that my winmodem module is not working as expected?
And second, the ppp-HOWTO tells me that I MUST obtain the adress of 2 DNS
from my ISP. But in ppp manpage I found reference to an option -usepeersdns
that seems to allow obtaining these on the run, as window$ do. Is that so?
As always, any help will be appreciated. :^)
--Jeferson L. Zacco aka Wooky
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Linux registered user #221896
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