My last posting on this topic did not make it to the digest. So I am
reposting it. I appologize if anyone receives it twice.
2000/10/07
Dear Listers
Still no cigar I am afraid.
As a definitive test of the serial port gap possibility, I disabled
the serial ports on COM1 and COM2 and reconfigured the modem to COM1.
The serial ports are on the mother board so they had to be disabled in
setup. This made no change in the situation.
Question: Would the modem initializing string cause a problem even
though it works that far.
Responses to the last messages:
Roger Turk wrote:
>I don't follow the, "waiting for >" lines as you did not indicate
>anything like this in describing you manual logins. I have added
>recommendations on your Arachne.cfg post:
Actually, neither did I. It was already embedded in the default script
and I did not know what to do with it. Leaving it blank as you and
Clarence Verge suggested got me past that road block. However, no
change in the problem. Here is a screen dump of the automatic dialog.
It looks normal to me up to loading the packet driver.
CONNECT 9600/ARQ/V34/LAPM/V42BIS
* Autologin is enabled in Arrachne.cfg ---etc----
* Trying login. -----etc------
* [1] waiting for login:
Welcome to 3 Com ------blah, blah,
Networks that go -----blah,blah
login:
* [1] Received: 'login'
* [1] answering: Pvalliant
* [2] waiting for "sword"
Pvalliant
Password:
* [2] Received: "sword"
* [2] Answering: "******"
* [3] Answering: PPP
* Leaving miniterm and trying SLIP/PPP etc
PPP Link is down: driver not installed.
After a pause a screen entitled "Unable to initialize PPP"
>I just noticed another part of your Arachne.cfg that may be
>causing some of the problems:
>Cache2TEMP Yes <--Do you have a "TEMP" directory set?
> I.E., C:\TEMP? Make sure that you *have*
> a *Directory* named, "TEMP" and are not
> using C:\ as your TEMP directory. Also,
> make sure that you have the location of
> the TEMP directory SET in your Autoexec.bat
> file. (Type "SET" at the DOS prompt to
> see if it is defined. It should appear
> as a line such as: TEMP=C:\TEMP.")
Yes, I recently learned that lesson the hard way.
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Clarence Verge wrote:
>> Port 3
>> Irq 4
>Oh nuts. Do you have BOTH a com1 and com2 ? If no, then we still
>have a problem with com port holes. If yes, then I'm baffled
>right now.
Com1 and Com2 were enabled as serial ports. See also my note at the
beginning of this message.
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Bernie wrote:
>Herbert, set these in your Arachne.Cfg
>UseTerminal No
>Autologin No
>
>And report if it works or not.
>
No, it doesn't . There is simply a long pause and then I get the
screen entitled " unable to initialize PPP"
>First try PAP/CHAP, then if that fails try a manual login - and
>then automate it when that one works.
I presume setting UseTerminal and Autologin to No invokes PAP/CHAP
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In summary:
1) PAP/CHAP, manual login, auto login all give the same result: no
packet driver.
2) It cannot be the COM gap with the modem on COM1:
Where do we go from here?
Thanks for all the help so far.
Sincerely
Herb Valliant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
