At 06:10 AM 9/4/2000 -0400, Derek Martin wrote:
she is one of my customers......so i can answer this.... :-)
>Yesterday, Shanna Brown gleaned this insight:
>
> > I am having a very hard time getting connected to the internet. I am
> > reletively new to linux, though I have been fighting with it for years. I
> > like the format, but getting onto the net has always been a problem for me.
> >
> > Here is the situation...I have RH 5.2
> > My modem initiates, dials the isp server, goes through the awful sounds of
> > logging in, goes silent, and after about 20 seconds, hangs up and
> starts the
> > process over again.
>
>Well, some questions I have would be:
>
> * Who is your ISP?
USAExpress.net
> * Do you know what kind of authorization they use?
either PAP or terminal based
> * how did you configure your connection (i.e. by hand or with a tool)?
> * Are you a patient person? =8^)
>
>If you want fancy GUI monitors, you're best off upgrading to the latest
>versions of RH 6.2 and getting the Helix Code update for Gnome. There are
>several applets that you can add to the gnome panel (and probably the KDE
>menu bar too, but I don't use KDE).
>
>There is also a program called pppstats (not a GUI monitor) that may be on
>your system, which you can look at. You can also go to Freshmeat
>(freshmeat.net) and download pload, or KPPPload, and see if they will
>help, but to be honest, I doubt they will.
>
>You probably want to run pppd in debug mode, and then watch the system
>logs. If you look in /etc/ppp there should be a file called options, to
>which you can just add the word debug to the end. Then you can use a
>command like
>
> tail -f /var/log/messages
what about tail -f /var/log/messages | grep ppp
>to watch the output from pppd to see what the problem is. There's a lot
>of stuff that it will print out, but if you read through it, you could
>probably figure out what the problem is.
>
> > > In windows I could monitor the activity of the connection through the
> dialup
> > dialog box. It would tell me just exacly why it was disconnecting. Is
> > there an equivilant in Linux? If so, what is it?
>
>Heh... If you say so. In my experience, Windows never tells you exactly
>why it does anything, and often tells you something that's completely
>WRONG.
>
> > My modem is set up IRQ4 Com1. There are not conflicts, I have already
> ruled
> > that out.
>
>I would agree... if there were conflicts you probably wouldn't be able to
>dial at all.
>
> > > I have also made sure that the login scripting is correct (right log
> in name
> > and password).
>
>This really is the tricky part, and may indeed be the part that's killing
>you. Your ISP may be using plain-text, CHAP, PAP, or MS-CHAP for
>authentication. You may not be set up properly for whatever they're
>doing.
>
>
> > Any Ideas???????
>
>It really depends on how much you want to get into it. I've set up PPP
>for my own connection to a bunch of different ISPs, and they were all
>different. I would personally advocate reading the PPP howto and all of
>the pppd man pages and do it the manual way, if you're not already doing
>that. It may take longer on average to get a working connection that way,
>but if you're one of the lucky ones that has an ISP which is doing strange
>things, it may be the ONLY way you'll get it working.
>
>You're probably using a tool to help you configure your PPP
>connection? The older versions of the tools often had bugs that prevented
>them from yeilding a working connection. Tools with more recent releases
>of RedHat (et. al.) tend to be much better.
>
>Does any of this help?
>
>
>--
>You know that everytime I try to go where I really want to be,
>It's already where I am, cuz I'm already there...
>---------------------------------------------------------------
>Derek D. Martin | Unix/Linux Geek
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