On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > first thing: should there be any chat script at all if you authenticate > using cu? (i've never used cu, so i may be wrong) > Should the chat script try to reset the modem if it has already connected?? > (the ATZ and AT) This is using pon on the new setup. I only use cu on the slackware setup because that's all that was available at the time. I tried installing wvdial one time and had similar problems. I thought maybe I have some weird hardware problem with the serial card, but this is a new one with the new motherboard, and the old one does exactly the same.
> I would try to edit /etc/chatscripts/provider to contain only one line: > '' '' > if I were you. > > On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 05:06:18PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > One thing that concerned me was that the kernel messages from dmesg don't > > mention the ppp0 device as happens on a working debian ppp machine I've > > seen. > > The relevant part of dmesg looks like this .... > > > > PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling) > > PPP line discipline registered. > > > > and that's it. > > > > What is happening? > > this is how it looks like on my system (slink, 2.2.12): > > PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling) > PPP line discipline registered. > registered device ppp0 > PPP BSD Compression module registered > PPP Deflate Compression module registered > PPP: ppp line discipline successfully unregistered > > and as far as i can remember, the "registered device ppp0" appears only > after chat script has finished successfully: My friedns machine gets the registered device ppp0 during boot up and he doesn't start pppd at that stage. > Sep 18 12:56:04 pecet pppd[166]: Serial connection established. > Sep 18 12:56:05 pecet pppd[166]: Using interface ppp0 > > hope this helps, > Marcin > > -- > > -------------------------------- > Marcin Owsiany > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------- > > ---- Robert King, Australian Environmental Studies, Griffith University, Australia 3875 6677 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ens.gu.edu.au/robertk/ statistician (n.) someone who can draw a mathematically precise line from an unwarranted assumption to a foregone conclusion. [anon.]