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  • From: "rvijay07" <rvijay07 AT myway.com>
  • To: 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
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  • Subject: Re: [BL] ppp Not working all the time.
  • Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 21:01:01 -0500 (EST)


Nothing else on COM2. When ppp-on hangs there are no messages, it just stays
as such. Very rarely there is a message like connection terminated. Yes, I
hear my modem when it connects. Next time the connect fails again I will
check session.0 file

Vijay

--- On Sun 03/06, < 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org > wrote:
From: [mailto: 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org]
To: rvijay07 AT myway.com
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 14:51:38 +1300
Subject: Re: [BL] ppp Not working all the time.

rvijay07 wrote:<br>><br>> OK, as requested here are the detailed steps of
everything I did.<br>><br>> 1. pppsetup<br>> changed speed to
115200<br><br>Don't change.<br><br>> then changed the ttyS2 to
ttyS1<br><br>So your modem is on COM2? Is it external?<br>If not, are you
sure the usual COM2 port<br>is disconnected?<br><br>> then added the number
to dial for my ISP<br>> then added my user name<br>> then my password<br>>
then pressed ctrl+XY<br>> <br>> Now the screen with the DNS numbers
cameup.<br>> I entered the DNS numbers for my ISP (after <br>> deleting the
DNS numbers present already).<br><br>Don't worry about that. The DNS is not
stopping<br>you connecting. Besides the DNS numbers there<br>might work as
is.<br><br>> then pressed ctrl+XY<br>> 2. Pressed syslogd<br>> 3. pressed cat
/var/log/messages<br>> There was a message saying that syslogd had
started<br>> 4. then pressed ppp-on<br><br>Did you type ppp-on from the
command line? <br>Did you get any message on the screen?<br><br>> It will
not even dial my ISP. <br><br>But sometimes it does. Is that right?<br>When
it does dial, do you hear it?<br><br>Just hung there till I pressed
ctrl-c<br> <br>> 5. I pressed cat /var/log/messages again. No new
messages<br><br>Usually pppd sends messages to /var/log/messages.<br>Eznet
(which does the dialing before pppd starts)<br>sends messages to
/var/eznet/session.html <br>Does that tell you anything
useful?<br><br>Cheers,<br>Steven<br><br>____________________________<br>http://www.basiclinux.com.ru<br>

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