Dan,
Thanks for the reply I think it's my modem see my other reply to the
list's.
Thank you,
George Williamson.
At 01:58 AM 5/1/98 -0700, you wrote:
>
>I'm assuming you either figured out what you have done so far, or have seen
>http://www.valleynet.bc.ca/~dan/autoppp.html
>http://www.valleynet.bc.ca/~dan/autoppp1.html
>
>If you know you have everything proper, check /usr/local/etc/mgetty+sendfax
>if it's there then that's your problem. If not, make sure your modem is
>working properly. I have had the 'worst' experience over the past few weeks
>trying to setup first AutoPPP (to make sure everything was working right),
>then portslave.
>It turned out this f&*king motherboard (houston m575) would NOT let go of
>IRQ12 in the bios, even after telling it to. The bocaboard's default IRQ is
>12. So, in the end switching the bocaboard over to IRQ11 fixed everything.
>(all other motherboards I have tried worked just fine)
>One thing to note. With it being on IRQ12 it seemed as though everything
>was fine. It would answer the call, and see it was an AutoPPP session, but
>would NOT authenticate it.
>
>This drove me so close to the edge it's not funny!
>
>So, the moral is. It could very well be a hardware conflict somewhere.
>
>Good Luck.
>
>
>Dan
>
>At 08:37 AM 5/1/98 +1000, George Williamson wrote:
>>Hi all,
>> I'm still trying to get my server going. I have tried everything
>>including a new pentium chip and motherboard since i was running a cyrix
>>chip. The problem now is that everything logs on as /AutoPPP/ but ppp has
>>not started so login /AutoPPP/ is thrown out. Have chmod u+s
>>/usr/sbin/pppd, recomplied both versions ie 1.12 & 1.9 a thousand times and
>>all i have changed was the Cflags @ line 111 and added -DAUTO_PPP and the
>>prefix also the DEVICE _GROUP in policy-h from modem to uucp. Using RH5
>>kernel 2.0.33 with ppp support and Charles Fishers version of pppd 2.2.0f-5
>>. Have tried compling ppp-2.2.0g but that will not complie. Has anybody got
>>any idea what I,m doing wrong??? I,m going crazy!!!!
>>
>>TIA,
>>George Williamson.
>
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