Bill,
I tried your suggestion -
'" uncomment "demand" then set "idle <persist>"'
- but when I try 'pon primus' as root I keep getting the error message
"/usr/sbin/pppd: invalid numeric parameter '<9>' for idle option"
I'm stumped by this one: "idle <persist>" does not work, nor do numeric
values 3600, 600, 60, 10, or 9 - in seconds before the connection is
terminated.
I've toggled 'persist' in the advanced section of pppconfig to no
effect.
I'm not sure if this addresses the problem ... I've never experienced
this one before.
Adam Bogacki
P.O. Box 38, Earlwood, NSW 2206, Australia
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [current ISP]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [forwarding]
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On
Behalf Of Bill Taylor
Sent: Saturday, 30 March 2002 11:47 AM
To: Adam Bogacki
Subject: Re: Rapid modem timeout.
Adam Bogacki wrote:
>
> Thanks Bill.
>
> I have had a successful reinstall which has been marred by rapid modem
> timeout after about a minute. This does not happen on my XP drive, so
it
> is not the ISP. I saw an error message flash by which I did not catch,
> and 'apt-get update' cannot stat any of the source addresses so I
cannot
> dist-upgrade or fix dependency errors. It looks like a
misconfiguration
> but I can't find the source (pppconfig?
have a look at /etc/ppp/options , it seems to be a config file. there is
a place to uncomment "demand" then set "idle <persist>" (have a look
about 4-6 weeks ago in slug, I seem to recall this one)(I'm gunna
download the whole achieves one day, so I don't have to ask questions on
the list that have been asked dozens of times before)
I haven't tried to connect from deb. yet.(because it detected a net,rh
set up for proxy, gateway, etc. and as I will need all this I don't want
to unset it all, & I suspect deb has done at least some of this as well)
would you expect to be able to update "x" from the unstable version
without inviting more problems than a beginner can handle? rh7.2 set up
"x" without any problems (v.4.10)
but I can't get "x" to run on deb. (v3.3.6) on the same box! (The
unstable is using v4.?)
amongst the error messages is a column of (---) or(***)followed by text.
what do I need (---) or (***)? there are actually both, so I'm confused
as to which has been found, or not found.
cheers
Bill
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