Re: ppp problems

[David Gardi <debian@gardisoft.org>]

Dan Pomohaci wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm using Debian Woody (kernel 2.2.20 and ppp version 2.4.1). I tried to connect to my ISP but until now I
> had no success. I have an external modem and I used pppconfig (chat
> protocol) to set the connection parameters. After I run the command:
> pon myprovider
> the modem find my ISP but after few seconds disconnect himself. This
> is what plog said about:
>
> Dec 26 08:32:37 dpc pppd[950]: Serial connection established.
> Dec 26 08:32:37 dpc pppd[950]: Using interface ppp0
> Dec 26 08:32:37 dpc pppd[950]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0
> Dec 26 08:32:39 dpc pppd[950]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 552> <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0xef19eca9> <pcomp> <accomp>]
> Dec 26 08:32:40 dpc pppd[950]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 552> <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0xef19eca9> <pcomp> <accomp>]
> Dec 26 08:32:40 dpc pppd[950]: sent [LCP ConfNak id=0x1 <magic 0xae046dca>]
> Dec 26 08:32:42 dpc pppd[950]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 552> <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0xef19eca9> <pcomp> <accomp>]
> Dec 26 08:32:45 dpc pppd[950]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 552> <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0xef19eca9> <pcomp> <accomp>]
> Dec 26 08:32:48 dpc pppd[950]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 552> <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0xef19eca9> <pcomp> <accomp>]
> Dec 26 08:32:51 dpc pppd[950]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 552> <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0xef19eca9> <pcomp> <accomp>]
> Dec 26 08:32:54 dpc pppd[950]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 552> <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0xef19eca9> <pcomp> <accomp>]
> Dec 26 08:32:57 dpc pppd[950]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 552> <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0xef19eca9> <pcomp> <accomp>]
> Dec 26 08:33:00 dpc pppd[950]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 552> <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0xef19eca9> <pcomp> <accomp>]
> Dec 26 08:33:03 dpc pppd[950]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 552> <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0xef19eca9> <pcomp> <accomp>]
> Dec 26 08:33:06 dpc pppd[950]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 552> <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0xef19eca9> <pcomp> <accomp>]
> Dec 26 08:33:09 dpc pppd[950]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests 
> Dec 26 08:33:09 dpc pppd[950]: Connection terminated.
> Dec 26 08:33:10 dpc pppd[950]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
> Dec 26 08:33:10 dpc pppd[950]: Exit.
>
> Please help me because I'm forced to use Windows for connecting to my
> ISP, and I really don't like that,
> Dan
ppp is great if you know how your isp works in detail, and you know how 
to configure it.
Otherwise you could use wvdial. It works with most isps I've tried, and 
it's easy
to set up. It's a dep pkg as well :)

David.