ppp difficulties
I've installed potato on my machine at home. The initial install was done
with the base disks, then the rest of the packages were put on the machine
using an ethernet card and a mirror of the unstable tree from a friends
machine. I made a complete mirror on my machine using lftp, then removed
the ethernet card, took the machine home and tried to set up ppp
connections to my two providers. This is where the problems came.
pon won't do anything. More correctly, it starts a chat session, which
doesn't manage to get anything through to the modem. chat just sits there
sending ATZ and waiting for an OK.
Doing it "by hand" doesn't work either. cu had terrible trouble getting
to the modem, complaining about it being in use by another process, and
denying permission even to root. There are no lock files mentioning
/dev/ttyS? in /var/lock or /var/run. I decided to force the issue and
chomd a+rxw /dev/ttyS1 this allows cu to run, and I can get a connection
to the provided which allows terminal access. When I try to start ppp on a
connection obtained through cu (which I have done successfully before),
pppd complains that the cu process owns /dev/ttyS1 and won't allow a
connection
Ideas anyone?
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Robert King, Australian Environmental Studies, Griffith University, Australia
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