Re: ppp install failing (loopback?)
Quoting hawk (hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu):
>
> Unfortunately, pppconfig doesn't seem to like me. After changing an
> irq, it now finds my modem. It takes all the information from me that
> it thinks it should need, and then tells me that it failed to make a
> connection. Judging by a brief flash on the screen (why are error
> messages *still* going to the screen where they're not visible or
> recordable after all these years?), it may be using the provider script
> rather than the psu script I told it to use. I've tried editing
> provider, but with the same results.
>
> Checking /var/log/syslog, it appears that the message is that the tty
> is looping back to itself. (horrible idea that just hit me: does this
> mean that this old modem for which I have no documetnation is set to
> half-duplex?? it's a gateway from a 486 with a set of 8 dip switches .
> . .)
Is that *all* the log says? Does the modem dial? Is there a response
from the other end?
Until your modem makes a connection, it will normally be reflecting
back to you everything you send to it. Here's a fragment:
Oct 7 23:00:49 home chat[1879]: send (ATZ^M) <-------sent
Oct 7 23:00:49 home chat[1879]: expect (OK)
Oct 7 23:00:49 home chat[1879]: ATZ^M^M <---received
Oct 7 23:00:49 home chat[1879]: OK -- got it
Oct 7 23:00:49 home chat[1879]: send (ATDT655555^M) <-------sent
Oct 7 23:00:49 home chat[1879]: expect (ogin:)
Oct 7 23:00:49 home chat[1879]: ^M
Oct 7 23:01:28 home chat[1879]: ATDT655555^M^M <---received
ppp expects that reflection to stop happening once you connect.
You might try posting the log (sanitised like the above).
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