Re: pppd difficulties

[Rodrigo Baroni <rodrigobaroni@gmail.com>]

Hi Larry,

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 00:08:59 -0600, Larry Crouch
<LCrouch@digitalsynergistics.com> wrote:
> This newbie is having difficulty setting up dial-up networking on Linux on
> my HP 712/60 box.
[...]

   As you told, the modem seems be working (like when you type "bash$
echo atdt > /dev/ttyS0 and get the modem working), so, let's configure
the connection:

   1)Run "bash$ pppconfig" [as root user] to configure your modem to
use, the provider, the login user and passwd, etc. Also, add the users
that you wanna let use the ppp.

   2)Run "bash$ pon <connection_named>" where the connection is that
configured using pppconfig.

   How did you get your kernel? Is a Debian-image kernel or a compiled
by yourself? If the second option, also see if all ppp protocols is
enabled in your kernel - the options are:

CONFIG_PPP=y
CONFIG_PPP_MULTILINK=y
CONFIG_PPP_FILTER=y
CONFIG_PPP_ASYNC=y
CONFIG_PPP_SYNC_TTY=y
CONFIG_PPP_DEFLATE=y
CONFIG_PPP_BSDCOMP=y
CONFIG_PPPOE=y

 Best Regards,
Rodrigo Ferreira Baroni

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