Re: ppp0

[Chen Xu <xuc@saturn.med.nyu.edu>]

Hi John,

Thanks for your help, really.

I actually did run pppconfig and answered the questions, but still not
working. I suspect maybe there is something to do with my modem port. My
modem is on COM4 and IRQ is 10. As defuelt, the IRQ asigned for COM4 may
be different. I did 'setserial -b /dev/ttyS3 IRQ 10' to change COM4 to IRQ
10 manually after system comes up, but still did not help. Don't know if
something wrong in the installation point.

And, actually I have FreeBSD in the some box and when I set the PPP for
FBSD, I had to recompile the kernel with the new IRQ value. And then it
worked. 

I choose Debian to try because I like some of its features, i.g. the
package management etc. But I have to say, at least to my limited
experience, the installation is a little harder than FreeBSD.

Any furthere help? Thanks alot, John.

Chen


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On 29 Mar 1999, John Hasler wrote:

> > I meant even before you got connected to you IPS, you should have ppp0
> > interface(network interface) running, which can be easily check by
> > command 'ifconfig'. (According PPP-HOWTO, if I understand correctly).
> 
> No.  The interface doesn't exist until the connection comes up.
> 
> > When I set all the file in /etc/ppp/* following what PPP-HOWTO says and
> > do 'pon;plog -f", I hear the sound from Modem but that was not dial tone.
> > I could not connect to my IPS.
> 
> The PPP-HOWTO can be most charitably described as misleading. Run
> pppconfig, answer the questions, and try pon again.
> -- 
> John Hasler
> john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
> Dancing Horse Hill
> Elmwood, WI
>