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0. Running Mandrake 7.0, with no substantive changes (no kernel builds,
etc.)
1. For months, I have had no kppp/ppp/pppd have seemed to work perfectly.
2. Several days passed when I didn't use them. (They worked fine last
Tuesday; but on Saturday, disaster).
3. Now, whatever I do, pppd dies at some point during the opening
negotiation.
This is the most verbose version of the log that I can get:
Aug 27 12:47:33 localhost chat[989]: expect (CONNECT)
Aug 27 12:47:53 localhost chat[989]: ATDT3034427097^M^M
Aug 27 12:47:53 localhost chat[989]: CONNECT
Aug 27 12:47:53 localhost chat[989]: -- got it
Aug 27 12:47:53 localhost chat[989]: send (^M)
Aug 27 12:47:53 localhost chat[989]: expect (name:)
Aug 27 12:47:53 localhost chat[989]: 26400/ARQ/V34/LAPM/V42BIS^M
Aug 27 12:47:54 localhost chat[989]: ^M
Aug 27 12:47:54 localhost chat[989]: ^M
Aug 27 12:47:54 localhost chat[989]: User Access Verification^M
Aug 27 12:47:54 localhost chat[989]: ^M
Aug 27 12:47:54 localhost chat[989]: Username:
Aug 27 12:47:54 localhost chat[989]: -- got it
Aug 27 12:47:54 localhost chat[989]: send (n7dr^M)
Aug 27 12:47:54 localhost chat[989]: expect (word:)
Aug 27 12:47:54 localhost chat[989]: ^M
Aug 27 12:47:54 localhost chat[989]: Username: n7dr^M
Aug 27 12:47:54 localhost chat[989]: Password:
Aug 27 12:47:54 localhost chat[989]: -- got it
Aug 27 12:47:54 localhost chat[989]: send (<password goes here>^M)
Aug 27 12:47:54 localhost pppd[988]: Serial connection established.
Aug 27 12:47:54 localhost pppd[988]: Using interface ppp0
Aug 27 12:47:54 localhost pppd[988]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem
Aug 27 12:47:56 localhost pppd[988]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
Aug 27 12:47:56 localhost pppd[988]: Modem hangup
Aug 27 12:47:56 localhost pppd[988]: Connection terminated.
Aug 27 12:47:57 localhost pppd[988]: Exit.
The "Hangup (SIGHUP)" is what seems to be the problem. I assume that this
means that _something_ is sending pppd a SIGHUP, but what could it possibly
be???
4. Booting under Windows, PPP works perfectly.
5. If I manually talk to the serial port, I can dial the phone and log in,
and see the ppp initialization packets coming. Eventually (since I can't
send the right packets back when I am pretending to be an ordinary
terminal) the phone line hangs up, but only after about 20 seconds. As you
can see from the log, the ppp daemon is dying after only a couple of
seconds.
6. Exactly the same happens if I do a command-line invocation of pppd/chat
(in fact, that's how I got the error log).
I'm less bothered by the fact that what used to work is no longer working
(hey! I'm used to Windows, where that sort of thing happens all the time)
than I am by the fact that I've spent several hours now, and haven't made
any progress in getting this to work. (Amongst other things, I have
reinstalled ppp and kppp, but that had no effect. I also tweaked every
parameter I thought reasonable, and nothing improved the situation.)
So I'm well and truly stumped.
Any suggestions as to things to try are MOST WELCOME.
Doc Evans
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