Re: ppp connection failure - re-post
Quoting John Gould (johng@skeletor.powinv.co.uk):
> I am running potato with kernel 2.2.15 installed. Whatever
> I do I cannot get ppp to connect to the local RAS server. Another box
> running 2.1r4 works perfectly. I have re-built the kernel several times
> and stripped out ppp and pppconfig and re-installed. Still I get the same
> error on connect. Can anyone help? Part of ppp connect from syslog shown
> below:-
>
> May 18 17:32:17 heman pppd[666]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
> May 18 17:32:18 heman pppd[666]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0>
> <magic 0xe7f3fcfa> <pcomp> <accomp>]
> May 18 17:32:45 heman last message repeated 9 times
> May 18 17:32:48 heman pppd[666]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
It looks as though you're receiving nothing. Try dialling with minicom.
Do you need to type PPP before the other end starts pppd (i.e. before
you get lots of {{{ coming back)? If so, you need to amend your
chatscript to send this after a suitable pause.
Cheers,
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