PPP failure on the startup (serial line is looped back)
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I've managed once more to get the base distribution onto the kdis
machine, and I think that this one was the biggest fight I"ve had in
five years of debian . . . Theres' a cute bug that *can* happen, but
I'm not sure what caused it, that apparently causes extracton fo
drivers.tgz to go to stdout rather than the file system (at least, I
assume that that's what the garble is). And error messages still go to
the the raw screen, only to be overwritten immediately by the
installation program before they can be read, rather than to another
vt. I don't know if this one is in the bug tracking system, as I first
reported it before that system existed . . .
Anyway, eventually the entire system is in, and I attempted the ppp
connection. The system successfully detected my modem, but fails
instantly during the dselect phase--it apparently tries to grab the
packages without first starting ppp.
/var/log/messages yields the following:
Sep 24 12:22:03 eyry kernel: PPP line discipline registered.
Sep 24 12:22:03 eyry kernel: registered device ppp0
Sep 24 12:22:03 eyry pppd[238]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0
Sep 24 12:22:06 eyry pppd[238]: Exit.
Sep 24 12:22:06 eyry pppd[241]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0
Sep 24 12:22:08 eyry pppd[241]: Serial connection established.
Sep 24 12:22:08 eyry pppd[241]: Using interface ppp0
Sep 24 12:22:08 eyry pppd[241]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
Sep 24 12:22:10 eyry pppd[241]: Serial line is looped back. <=========
Sep 24 12:22:10 eyry pppd[241]: Connection terminated.
Sep 24 12:22:11 eyry pppd[241]: Exit.
Sep 24 12:23:13 eyry pppd[269]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0
Sep 24 12:23:14 eyry chat[276]: abort on (BUSY)
Sep 24 12:23:14 eyry chat[276]: abort on (NO CARRIER)
Sep 24 12:23:14 eyry chat[276]: abort on (VOICE)
Sep 24 12:23:14 eyry chat[276]: abort on (NO DIALTONE)
Sep 24 12:23:14 eyry chat[276]: abort on (NO DIAL TONE)
Sep 24 12:23:14 eyry chat[276]: abort on (NO ANSWER)
Sep 24 12:23:14 eyry chat[276]: send (ATZ^M)
Sep 24 12:23:14 eyry chat[276]: expect (OK)
Sep 24 12:23:59 eyry chat[276]: alarm
Sep 24 12:23:59 eyry chat[276]: send (AT^M)
Sep 24 12:23:59 eyry chat[276]: expect (OK)
Sep 24 12:24:13 eyry pppd[302]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0
Sep 24 12:24:13 eyry pppd[302]: Device ttyS1 is locked by pid 269
Sep 24 12:24:13 eyry pppd[302]: Exit.
Sep 24 12:24:44 eyry chat[276]: alarm
Sep 24 12:24:44 eyry chat[276]: Failed
Sep 24 12:24:45 eyry pppd[269]: Exit.
What does "serial line is looped back" mean? Is this my problem? Does
this mean that the modem is on full duplex? And if so, does anyone
have a list of the dipswitch settings for a 1984 era gateway modem? :)
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