More diald woes!!!!!

[Ben White <bewhite@bgsm.edu>]

Hello all,

Thanks to those of you who responded to my last desperate cry for help.  
I am one step closer in getting my setup working.  Currently I use a 
Slackware distribution with kernel 1.2.13, but want to upgrade to Debian 
to avoid the commercial distributions, and because of its sophisticated 
package management.  Because of my specific requirements I must have 
demand dialing ppp connectivity (which I have working with 1.2.13 
slackware).  Here is my current state of affairs:


	0) I am using Debian 1.2, kernel 2.0.27 (or close to that

	1) can connect with commandline invocation of pppd

	2) diald installed, and tries to bring up the link appropriately

	3) chat dials and logs in, pppd is started

	4) from modem lights the remote is sending packets and pppd is
	   not responding

	5) after 20 sec diald times out pppd and kills it

	6) the ppp.log file then prints

May 14 00:30:12 whitehouselocal pppd[658]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0
May 14 00:31:12 whitehouselocal diald[387]: pppd startup timed out. Check your p
ppd options. Killing pppd.
May 14 00:31:12 whitehouselocal pppd[658]: Terminating on signal 2.
May 14 00:31:12 whitehouselocal pppd[658]: Failed to open /dev/ttyS1: Interrupte
d system call
May 14 00:31:12 whitehouselocal pppd[658]: Exit.
May 14 00:31:14 whitehouselocal diald[387]: Delaying 10 seconds before clear to
dial.
May 14 00:32:38 whitehouselocal diald[387]: SIGTERM. Termination request receive
d.

This output is with a /etc/ppp/options file that contains only "debug."

I have read the discussions of /dev/cua* v. /dev/ttyS* and am using ttyS1.

So here I am.  My setup requires a demand-dialing system as my linux box 
provides internet access for several other computers connected to a local 
ethernet.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Ben
bewhite@bgsm.edu



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