Re: Install 2.0 via FTP: doesn't like a 28.8 modem the OS/2 partition likes.
Don't feel bad I've been banging my head on this for two weeks now....
Rob Landley wrote:
> Brief summary:
>
> In installed from the boot disk, booted to the linux partition, but
> "pon" can't create a ppp connection to my ISP to install the rest via
> FTP.
>
> My system:
>
> 486DX75, approx 800 meg IDE hard drive (western digital I think), local
> bus, IDE CD-ROM (which OS/2 insists is a "Sony
> CDU-55D,55E,76E,760E,77E"... hey, it works), an IDE (well, ATAPI) zip
> drive, 3.5 drive A, 5.25 drive B, an 8 bit sound blaster from the dawn
> of time, a local bus "does everything" type I/O controller that probably
> has a garage door opener on it somewhere...
>
> The problem component seems to be my generic 28.8 internal modem using 8
> bits of a 16 bit ISA slot on COM3 using standard port/IRQ address.
> (COM1 is built into that controller card, but disabled via jumper. OS/2
> detects and used this modem just fine, I'm using it from my recently
> shrunk (guess why) OS/2 partition to send email.)
>
> The debian boot disks went down fine, I have a debian partition
> installed on partition hd6 (OS/2's useless boot manager, OS/2 itself,
> linux swap, and linux itself.) It boots from a floppy to get to it, I
> can login as root and cd around to my heart's content.
>
> The "pon" script exits immediately of course, but "ps a" says it fired
> off pppd which in turn fired off chat. After around 30 seconds, chat
> exits, so does pppd, and I still don't have a connection for dconfig to
> FTP the rest of the base system through. I copied all my ppp config
> (user name, password, phone number) info from my OS/2 ppp dialer, where
> it works, and entered it when prompted by install. Double-checked, it
> is correct. (I even started over, reformatted and did all seven boot
> disks again with the same result). I've tried both ATZ and the init
> string I hacked together way back before I misplaced the modem manual:
> "AT&FE1M0&C1&D2W2". Same result both times. As far as I can tell, it's
> not even picking up the phone.
>
> Drawing on the fragments of unix I know from college (sunos 4) and a
> little dabbling with AIX at IBM, I did the following, which may be a big
> red herring for all I know:
>
> on the alt-f1 tty:
> cp /dev/ttyS2 /dev/console
>
> on the alt-f2 tty:
> cp /dev/console /dev/ttyS2
>
> (If there's a dumb terminal program built into the OS, please let me
> know...)
>
> On alt-F2 I can type in ATDT[ENTER] and get the modem to pick up the
> phone, but only after about a fifteen second delay. It takes about the
> same amount of time for ATH0[ENTER] to hang up the phone. (Way back in
> the dark ages I used a 300 baud modem, and it was WAY faster than this
> response time.) I sometimes (unpredictably) get my commands echoed back
> to me on the alt-f1 console, and sometimes even a return code. The
> return code is numeric, despite the fact the long init string (Which
> sometimes gets echoed back) says to return "OK". I dunno what ATZ is
> supposed to return.
>
> I've tried 115k and 57600 port speeds. (Well, in the ppp config file in
> /usr/sbin/something_or_other. I don't know how to set it manually. I'm
> installing this to learn, not because I already know it.)
>
> I've been banging my head against this for two days. I've read rather a
> lot of Faq pages. I went through the bug reports for PPP (couldn't find
> one for the serial package). Um... Help? (Should I go back and try
> 1.3?)
>
> Rob Landley
>
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