Re: serial line loopback
Quoting dochawk@psu.edu (dochawk@psu.edu):
>
> > > What does "serial line is looped back" mean?
>
> > It means that pppd is seeing its own LCP packets coming back. This usually
> > happens when the host on the other end wants to see more text before it
> > starts pppd and is echoing everything it sees while it waits for the
> > required string.
>
> It's happening far too fast for that--It'sa only about a second from
> my telling it to do this to failure (with the failure message hidden
> behind the blue menu screens). There's no way that it's even dialing
> out, let alone getting through and making contacr.
Much the same applies, with the modem doing the reflecting.
> > Dial up your ISP with minicom and work through the login
> > procedure by hand to see how it works (this is not a method of connecting:
> > it's just research). Post the results along with the contents of
> > /etc/chatscripts/provider and /etc/ppp/peers/provider. Munge passwords.
>
> Can I just install the minicom deb on the raw abase system? I thought
> that there was a problem with this (but it's been a few years; maybe
> I'm just badly mistaken . . .))
I've had no problem with this (as far back as buzz).
Cheers,
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