Re: Dialer Problems-Only Pon Works
Gayle Lee Fairless wrote:
I'm having some of the same issues that Leonard has. The wvdial
doesn't appear to work on 2.6 kernels. I've scripted the tests as high as
kernel 2.6.12. It seems that the connection is immediately lost with only
0.0 or 0.1 minutes connection time reported.
I am going to use scanModem as he did to see if changing modems
from my external Hayes to the internal one will work. Also, the pppd (I
think) seems to randomly dial up the ISP. I've gotten errors 1 and 16 on
different occasions from the pppd daemon as documented in man pppd. The
program wvdial (and version, 54 something, I'm doing this off the top of
the head from work.), same version as Len's, works just fine on kernel
2.4.18-bf2.4 (the one available in woody).
My box is a Gateway 500 upgraded from woody to sarge.
I'll try to post more information when I get home especially in
response to questions. Some of this is a 'work in progrss' so I don't
have some of the answers (actually many!). I have yet to try out a script
in kppp to see if that works. Both Len and I probably run KDE 3.3 from
sarge.
Hello Gayle,
Kent West just fixed my wvdial by having me purge/reinstall wvdial. I had
no dialout group in wvdial.conf only root. Looks like another faultly
install.
The reinstall fixed it for me including being able to run it as user.
Wvdial
definately works on 2.6.* kernels. However, your problem is slightly
different
from mine as mine never connected at all. Are you using demand dialing in
provider or pppd config. This may account for the random access by wvdial
or pppd. It does look like you may have pppd configuration issues and a
purge/
reinstall may cure it. In many cases it has for me. I'm no expert, of
course, and
don't fully understand the pppd error messages, but I do remember
getting message
nos. 0 and 1 when I first setup kppp. I fixed it when I discovered
kppp.options in /etc/ppp,
I think, and it had only one entry "noauth" commented out. Uncomenting
it fixed it.
Go ahead and get your onboard modem working if its supported, but I
don't think it will
fix wvdial. It's got to be a bad install like mine or a config issue.
I'd try purge/reinstall first
on wvdial and then on ppp or pppd if wvdial alone didn't fix things. It
can't hurt and if your
lucky may fix it all. Good luck. One thing I learned, I think, is that
the default configurations
usually work right out if the box if the original install wasn't faulty
and a purge/reinstall generally
will fix a faulty initial install.
Leonard
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