Re: ppp failure under debian (slakware with pppd 2.2 patch level 0 works)
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> first thing: should there be any chat script at all if you authenticate
> using cu? (i've never used cu, so i may be wrong)
> Should the chat script try to reset the modem if it has already connected??
> (the ATZ and AT)
This is using pon on the new setup. I only use cu on the slackware setup
because that's all that was available at the time. I tried installing
wvdial one time and had similar problems. I thought maybe I have some weird
hardware problem with the serial card, but this is a new one with the new
motherboard, and the old one does exactly the same.
> I would try to edit /etc/chatscripts/provider to contain only one line:
> '' ''
> if I were you.
>
> On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 05:06:18PM +1000, Robert.King@mailbox.gu.edu.au wrote:
> > One thing that concerned me was that the kernel messages from dmesg don't
> > mention the ppp0 device as happens on a working debian ppp machine I've seen.
> > The relevant part of dmesg looks like this ....
> >
> > PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling)
> > PPP line discipline registered.
> >
> > and that's it.
> >
> > What is happening?
>
> this is how it looks like on my system (slink, 2.2.12):
>
> PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling)
> PPP line discipline registered.
> registered device ppp0
> PPP BSD Compression module registered
> PPP Deflate Compression module registered
> PPP: ppp line discipline successfully unregistered
>
> and as far as i can remember, the "registered device ppp0" appears only
> after chat script has finished successfully:
My friedns machine gets the registered device ppp0 during boot up and he
doesn't start pppd at that stage.
> Sep 18 12:56:04 pecet pppd[166]: Serial connection established.
> Sep 18 12:56:05 pecet pppd[166]: Using interface ppp0
>
> hope this helps,
> Marcin
>
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> Marcin Owsiany
> porridge@pandora.info.bielsko.pl
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