From: Pavel Galynin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Well, it was just a series of odd ascii characters.
A lot of "}" characters in it, per chance? That would be a PPP packet
that should have been directed to your modem, not the console. This
indicates the wrong arguments to pppd. Just how did you connect?
Give us all of the pppd arguments and configuration except for the phone
number and your password. Mine look like this:
/usr/sbin/pppd -d connect 'chat "" \
AT\&C1\&D2\&F2%G1%E0X4M0L0DT<phone-number-deleted> \
CONNECT "" ogin: <login-deleted> word: <password-deleted>' \
/dev/cua2 defaultroute -detach
This took some time to figure out, and you can probably start simpler.
There's a good deal of modem configuration in there after the "AT" that
isn't strictly necessary.
This is my /etc/ppp/options file:
connect /etc/ppp/ppp-connect
/dev/cua1
115200
asyncmap 0
crtscts
modem
lcp-echo-interval 30
lcp-echo-failure 4
ipcp-restart 30
lcp-restart 30
mru 1096
mtu 1096
The mru and mtu setting for most people would be much smaller, like 296.
> assming that dselect would spawn pppd and make it call.
No, dselect does not start your network directly.
If you want ppp to come up automaticaly on demand, first get it working,
and then install "diald". For now, start ppp up by running "pppd", with
"chat" arguments appropriate to dial and log in to your PPP host.
Watch the output of /var/log/debug and /var/log/messages and you should
be able to determine if PPP makes a connection. There may be some other
details regarding host name resolution once you get the connection working.
> then i tried to run pppd specifying /dev/modem
Make sure /dev/modem actually is connected to your modem. You should be
able to install the "minicom" program and use it something like telix.
Thanks
Bruce
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