Re: modem diagnostic?
John, I hope you don't mind if I jump on this thread. I made the same mistakes and now I need help! I followed RunningLinux... I also used wvdial (and that works, dialing up to ATT here in Tucson, AZ). However, I need to dial other ISPs (this is a portable). And they did not work with wvdial. So, I decided to take a different path. I removed PPP and then reinstalled ppp and pppconfig. I ran pppconfig and created a profile. Then I ran pon, I hear the dialtone, but it does not try to dial. plog reports: [...] expect (phone) alarm Failed Connect script failed abort on (BUSY) abort on (NO CARRIER) abort on (VOICE) abort on (NO DIALTONE) send (ATDTput^M) expect (phone) The script just cycles. Any thoughts? Thanks -- Randy On 07 Jul 2001 11:31:32 -0500, John Hasler wrote: Glenn Becker writes: I've installed ppp and pppconfig from my potato CDs,... Actually, you already had them installed. ...and was following instructions I found in -Running Linux-,... A mistake. The remote system is required to authenticate itself but I couldn't find any suitable secret (password) for it to use to do so. (None of the available passwords would let it use an IP address). Do you have a defaultroute pointing to the NIC you use for DSL? In any case, undo whatever -Running Linux- told you to do (simplest way is to purge and reinstall ppp). Then run pppconfig as root, follow instructions, and try to connect with pon. If you have trouble, run plog and post the output. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: modem diagnostic?
Newbie error... Sorry I should have entered pon tucson-att ... using the name of the provider! On 07 Jul 2001 11:31:32 -0500, John Hasler wrote: Glenn Becker writes: I've installed ppp and pppconfig from my potato CDs,... Actually, you already had them installed. ...and was following instructions I found in -Running Linux-,... A mistake. The remote system is required to authenticate itself but I couldn't find any suitable secret (password) for it to use to do so. (None of the available passwords would let it use an IP address). Do you have a defaultroute pointing to the NIC you use for DSL? In any case, undo whatever -Running Linux- told you to do (simplest way is to purge and reinstall ppp). Then run pppconfig as root, follow instructions, and try to connect with pon. If you have trouble, run plog and post the output. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: modem diagnostic?
All, Still can't seem to dial out ... In any case, undo whatever -Running Linux- told you to do (simplest way is to purge and reinstall ppp). Then run pppconfig as root, follow instructions, and try to connect with pon. If you have trouble, run plog and post the output. Here's the meat: I did this. Tried every permutation of PAP, CHAP and CHAT, dialup # with and without area code, and never got beyond this output from plog: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid0 connect script failed Exit. ... am going to contact the ISP today to see if there's any information they can provide. Connect script failed to -me- says that the modem is dialing but that the connection is crapping out because there's something wrong with the configuration. However, just to make the picture weirder, I tried wvdial. The wvdialconf program gave me -this- message: Scanning your serial ports for a modem. ttyS0*1: ATQ0 V1 E1 -- ATQ0 V1 E1 -- ATQ0 V1 E1 -- nothing. Port Scan*1: S1 S2 S3 Sorry, no modem was detected! Is it in use by another program? Did you configure it properly with setserial? ... so I began to explore setserial! Here is what setserial gives for /dev/ttyS0: /dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4 ... wufff. Is there anything wrong here? One program can't detect my modem, but it looks (to my newbie eyes) like the modem is A-OK. Thanks, Glenn ++ http://www.burningclown.com Everyone's Portal to Nothing At All ++
Re: modem diagnostic?
Glenn writes: Connect script failed to -me- says that the modem is dialing but that the connection is crapping out because there's something wrong with the configuration. Quite the opposite. Pppd knows nothing about modems. It calls the connect script and expects it do deal with the modem and everything else up to the point where the other end is ready to start ppp. Plog should return some messages from chat, though. Is there anything wrong here? One program can't detect my modem, but it looks (to my newbie eyes) like the modem is A-OK. No, the serial port is ok. Setserial only knows about serial ports. It knows nothing about modems. Looks like wvdial is telling you that there is no working modem connected to that port. See if you can talk to the modem with minicom, and check your other serial ports. Perhaps your modem is not on ttyS0: that's usually the mouse. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
Re: modem diagnostic?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, Still can't seem to dial out ... In any case, undo whatever -Running Linux- told you to do (simplest way is to purge and reinstall ppp). Then run pppconfig as root, follow instructions, and try to connect with pon. If you have trouble, run plog and post the output. Here's the meat: I did this. Tried every permutation of PAP, CHAP and CHAT, dialup # with and without area code, and never got beyond this output from plog: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid0 connect script failed Exit. ... am going to contact the ISP today to see if there's any information they can provide. Connect script failed to -me- says that the modem is dialing but that the connection is crapping out because there's something wrong with the configuration. However, just to make the picture weirder, I tried wvdial. The wvdialconf program gave me -this- message: Scanning your serial ports for a modem. ttyS0*1: ATQ0 V1 E1 -- ATQ0 V1 E1 -- ATQ0 V1 E1 -- nothing. Port Scan*1: S1 S2 S3 Sorry, no modem was detected! Is it in use by another program? Did you configure it properly with setserial? ... so I began to explore setserial! Here is what setserial gives for /dev/ttyS0: /dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4 ... wufff. Is there anything wrong here? One program can't detect my modem, but it looks (to my newbie eyes) like the modem is A-OK. Thanks, Glenn Just for kicks, you might try swapping out your modem with another temporarily, even if it's slower. A few weeks ago there was another thread similar to this one, where the modem worked fine in Windows, used to work fine in (Redhat? Mandrake?), but wasn't working in Debian. IIRC, his final conclusion was that a lightening strike had done just enough damage to prevent Debian (and presumably his other Linux distro if he had still had it) from working with the modem, but not Windows. I have no explanation for it, but I think that's the way I remember it. Kent
modem diagnostic?
Hi, I'm wondering if there is a way to perform a hardware check on my internal modem under Debian. I first started having trouble with it when I was still running Windoze, but suspected it was a crummy cable. Right arond the time I installed Debian I got DSL, so didn't install any dialup capabilities. Now I've moved and won't have DSL for at least a few weeks, and can't seem to connect out. I've installed ppp and pppconfig from my potato CDs, and was following instructions I found in -Running Linux-, 3rd ed., but the best I got was this message: The remote system is required to authenticate itself but I couldn't find any suitable secret (password) for it to use to do so. (None of the available passwords would let it use an IP address). ... one source of confusion for me is that I have yet to hear a dial tone! That is why I am looking for a simple way to test my modem, if there is one. Thanks in advance for any hints. Glenn Becker ++ http://www.burningclown.com Everyone's Portal to Nothing At All ++
Re: modem diagnostic?
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 11:09:03AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Hi, | | I'm wondering if there is a way to perform a hardware check on my internal | modem under Debian. | | I first started having trouble with it when I was still running Windoze, | but suspected it was a crummy cable. Right arond the time I installed | Debian I got DSL, so didn't install any dialup capabilities. Now I've | moved and won't have DSL for at least a few weeks, and can't seem to | connect out. | | I've installed ppp and pppconfig from my potato CDs, and was following | instructions I found in -Running Linux-, 3rd ed., but the best I got was | this message: | | The remote system is required to authenticate itself but I couldn't find | any suitable secret (password) for it to use to do so. (None of the | available passwords would let it use an IP address). If you got something from the remote system, I think the modem works. | ... one source of confusion for me is that I have yet to hear a dial tone! I think that is usually a good thing -- I find it annoying the way windows default to max volume on the speaker. The modem's speaker volume can be set with ATM0 (off) or ATM1 (probably other integer values are allowed too). BTW those are strings sent to the modem, usually by a program such as chat. | That is why I am looking for a simple way to test my modem, if there is | one. Try minicom. It is an interactive comm program that you can use to communicate with the modem and try it out. It is also really good to use for determining what sort of expect-send pairs to use when configuring chat to work with your ISP. HTH, -D
Re: modem diagnostic?
Glenn Becker writes: I've installed ppp and pppconfig from my potato CDs,... Actually, you already had them installed. ...and was following instructions I found in -Running Linux-,... A mistake. The remote system is required to authenticate itself but I couldn't find any suitable secret (password) for it to use to do so. (None of the available passwords would let it use an IP address). Do you have a defaultroute pointing to the NIC you use for DSL? In any case, undo whatever -Running Linux- told you to do (simplest way is to purge and reinstall ppp). Then run pppconfig as root, follow instructions, and try to connect with pon. If you have trouble, run plog and post the output. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin
Re: modem diagnostic?
well, I had notice of some modems that were capable of silent dialing. My one is, I think. I have a supra 33.6 diamond, isa. Its possible that there is an option to enable/disable that. im not sure On Sat, 7 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm wondering if there is a way to perform a hardware check on my internal modem under Debian. I first started having trouble with it when I was still running Windoze, but suspected it was a crummy cable. Right arond the time I installed Debian I got DSL, so didn't install any dialup capabilities. Now I've moved and won't have DSL for at least a few weeks, and can't seem to connect out. I've installed ppp and pppconfig from my potato CDs, and was following instructions I found in -Running Linux-, 3rd ed., but the best I got was this message: The remote system is required to authenticate itself but I couldn't find any suitable secret (password) for it to use to do so. (None of the available passwords would let it use an IP address). ... one source of confusion for me is that I have yet to hear a dial tone! That is why I am looking for a simple way to test my modem, if there is one. Thanks in advance for any hints. Glenn Becker ++ http://www.burningclown.com Everyone's Portal to Nothing At All ++ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
