On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 05:03, et wrote: > On Sunday 25 January 2004 09:48 pm, The Other wrote: > > On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 02:49:05 -0800 (PST), Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have done alot of research on google. This problem > > > seems to be pretty widespread. I started with Knoppix > > > 3.2 and purchased an External Creative Modem Blaster > > > (I believe model 5621) because I could not get a > > > winmodem to work. With Knoppix 3.2 Creative Modem > > > worked. I installed Knoppix 3.2 to the harddrive and > > > it still worked. Then I decided to try Mandrake 9.2. > > > Thats when I started getting this error. I have since > > > gotten a copy of Knoppix 3.3 and it is having the same > > > trouble. I sent an email to the address provided on > > > the error page and this is what he wrote back: > > > > > > I'd like to help but I don't know what to make out of > > > > > > this error: > > >> 16 The link was terminated by the modem hanging > > > > > > up. > > > > > > If you ever find out, please tell me. > > > > 01/25/04 > > > > I had this problem once when using 'kppp' (I've switched to 'wvdial'). > > > > Suggestion 1) Turn on the modem's speaker so you can hear what's going > > on. Tell anyone nearby that this is *really* necessary. IIRC, the noise > > stops when the connection handshake is completed. > > > > Suggestion 2) Increase *every* timeout setting you can find in 'kppp'. > > My problem was that the default 'kppp' waiting for a connection handshake > > to complete was 30 seconds. It was taking my modem 45 seconds to complete > > the handshake with the ISP. Hence my modem was 'hanging up' because it > > was never getting through the handshake due to 'kppp' stopping the > > handshake process at 30 seconds. I set the 'kppp' waiting to connect > > parameter (or whatever it's called) to 60 seconds and the problem went > > away. > > > > HTH, > > The Other > there also may be setting for the modem init string that need to be passed,
> I had some info. from linux headquarters that helped me with kppp and > the same problem. I needed to add the following to the field "execute > upon connect": route add default ppp0. This was to ensure that the > default gateway was set from ISP. John
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