[this email is pretty long, so please take my apologies for eating your bandwidth]
debianers, a friend of mine is experiencing severe problems connecting to her ISP in madison, wisconsin (inxpress.net). she has an internal 33.6 modem that seems to work (i have done the basic minicom AT tests), but when she dials up, it seems as if she gets a connection, launches ppp on both sides, but then the connection dies. even though i would like her to use pon/poff, i figure getting wvdial to work first is a good step, as wvdial does provide more information. so with the following configuration in /etc/wvdial.conf [Dialer Defaults] Modem = /dev/ttyS3 Baud = 115200 Init1 = ATZ Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 S11=55 +FCLASS=0 Phone = 663-5551 Username = heikkin Password = ******** she manages to establish a connection, which wvdial documents as follows: orange:~# wvdial --> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.41 --> Initializing modem. --> Sending: ATZ ATZ OK --> Sending: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 S11=55 +FCLASS=0 ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 S11=55 +FCLASS=0 OK --> Modem initialized. --> Sending: ATDT 663-5551 --> Waiting for carrier. ATDT 663-5551 CONNECT 26400/V42BIS --> Carrier detected. Waiting for prompt. login: --> Looks like a login prompt. --> Sending: heikkin heikkin Password: --> Looks like a password prompt. --> Sending: (password) Entering PPP mode. Async interface address is unnumbered (Ethernet0) Your IP address is 216.114.40.56. MTU is 1500 bytes --> Looks like a welcome message. --> Starting pppd at Fri Jun 8 13:45:30 2001 but then a split second later: --> PPP daemon has died! (exit code = 1) --> Disconnecting at Fri Jun 8 13:45:30 2001 --> Auto Reconnect will be attempted in 5 seconds --> pppd error! Look at files in /var/log for an explanation. however, /var/log doesn't seem to contain logs, and i don't have her plog output handy. and BTW: there is no /etc/ppp/options file. however, even though i am across the ocean (germany), i tried to connect from here just to see what's up (after all, 1.8c/min to the US with www.tele2.de). after a plethora of unsuccessful attempts because of line noise, i did make it in: [...] Entering PPP mode. Async interface address is unnumbered (Ethernet0) Your IP address is 216.114.40.142. MTU is 1500 bytes --> Looks like a welcome message. --> Starting pppd at Thu Jun 14 15:48:23 2001 fishbowl:/home/madduck# ping google.com PING google.com (216.239.33.100): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 216.239.33.100: icmp_seq=0 ttl=46 time=684.8 ms ^C fishbowl:/home/madduck# route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref 216.114.1.10 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 default 216.114.1.10 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 fishbowl:/home/madduck# traceroute madduck.net traceroute to madduck.net (130.58.82.235), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 216.114.1.10 (216.114.1.10) 566.917 ms 476.221 ms 479.922 ms ^C fishbowl:/home/madduck# Caught signal #2! Attempting to exit gracefully... --> Disconnecting at Thu Jun 14 15:49:48 2001 there are a couple of things i do different. sure, i send ATX3 in the initialization, but that's because i am behind an internal phone system. other than that, we send the same inits: mine: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 S11=55 +FCLASS=0 X3 hers: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 S11=55 +FCLASS=0 something that strikes me is the carrier negotiation: mine: CONNECT 115200/V34/LAPM/V42BIS/14400:TX/14400:RX hers: CONNECT 26400/V42BIS first, 115200 is a complete and utter lie. and then i don't assume to get a greater baudrate than she, when i am going over the ocean. nevertheless, V42BIS is supported by both, but maybe her provider has a bitching time with only that. this is giving me a hard time because there are 4000 miles between me and this computer, and i can only fix it via email. anyone have an idea how to make wvdial use pppd with the -d flag for debugging? anyone have any better ideas on why this isn't working? or any advice on how can i solve this problem better from 4000 miles away? martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:" [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "information superhighway" is just an anagram for "i'm on a huge wispy rhino fart".