Quoting hawk (hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu): > > Unfortunately, pppconfig doesn't seem to like me. After changing an > irq, it now finds my modem. It takes all the information from me that > it thinks it should need, and then tells me that it failed to make a > connection. Judging by a brief flash on the screen (why are error > messages *still* going to the screen where they're not visible or > recordable after all these years?), it may be using the provider script > rather than the psu script I told it to use. I've tried editing > provider, but with the same results. > > Checking /var/log/syslog, it appears that the message is that the tty > is looping back to itself. (horrible idea that just hit me: does this > mean that this old modem for which I have no documetnation is set to > half-duplex?? it's a gateway from a 486 with a set of 8 dip switches . > . .)
Is that *all* the log says? Does the modem dial? Is there a response from the other end? Until your modem makes a connection, it will normally be reflecting back to you everything you send to it. Here's a fragment: Oct 7 23:00:49 home chat[1879]: send (ATZ^M) <-------sent Oct 7 23:00:49 home chat[1879]: expect (OK) Oct 7 23:00:49 home chat[1879]: ATZ^M^M <---received Oct 7 23:00:49 home chat[1879]: OK -- got it Oct 7 23:00:49 home chat[1879]: send (ATDT655555^M) <-------sent Oct 7 23:00:49 home chat[1879]: expect (ogin:) Oct 7 23:00:49 home chat[1879]: ^M Oct 7 23:01:28 home chat[1879]: ATDT655555^M^M <---received ppp expects that reflection to stop happening once you connect. You might try posting the log (sanitised like the above). -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.