Re: modem and PPP trouble
Hi Joshua Wilson; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote:
> I recently installed Debian GNU/Linux, and I am having a terrible time
> getting PPP to work with my modem. I have a US Robotics 28.8 at
> /dev/ttyS2. I tried to set up PPP using pppconfig and I have looked
> at the files in /etc/ppp. Everything seems to be ok, but when I run
> pon my modem does not dial, nothing happens, and plog tells me that
> the connect script failed. I have consulted various HOWTOs and
> documentation but they all seem to refer to pre-HAM versions of Debian
> and reference a ppp.chatscript file that my box doesn't have. I also
> searched the debian-user archives but could not find a relevant
> answer. However, the archives did mention trying to dial out using
> minicom. Minicom was able to get my modem to dial, but this still
> does not solve my PPP problem since my ISP uses PAP and I do not how
> to negotiate a connection to it using minicom. Any help or ideas
> about how to get my modem to work with PPP would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Josh Wilson
sorry if this sounds stupid, but do you really have your modem on /dev/ttyS2?
Does your minicom or something similar work? The reason I'm asking this is
that my USR 33.6 (which I can't imagine being any diff than 28.8) was preset
at /dev/ttyS1 (which is DOS com2..)
HTH
damir
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