when your system "hangs" do you have no mouse and keyboard? can you start
netscape, type ifconfig and see a ppp entry? or ping something? you may have
PPP up and running as a forground job. just leave it and open a different
term to type ifconfig
On Tuesday 31 July 2001 18:35, Jeferson Lopes Zacco wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> In my endless quest to have Internet supporrt under LM, I've been
> trying to configure pppd and my (win)modem to acesss my ISP and I ran into
> some trouble.
> When I tried kppp the program would just hang -sometimes it informed me
> that ppp was run without the debug option and that I should turn that on. I
> couldn't hung up the modem afterwards- perhaps because I don''t know how.
>
> Then , following the ppp-HOWTO, I tried to connect with minicom.
> Everything goes fine till I try to start ppp from a shell prompt- then the
> system freezes completely. While I figure that even a Linux sys can be
> frozen by a non-working modem, since it handles IRQs and such, I was not
> really expecting it.
>
> For info, I'm starting minicom, dialing into my ISP with ATDT, and
> then, after the connect statement, I press ENTER and when the garbage (that
> accordingly to ppp HOWTO means the remote sys is starting a PAP ppp) comes
> I quit minicom without reseting the modem and start ppd with
>
> # pppd -d -detach /dev/modem 38400 &
>
> The system always hangs afterwards.
>
> I have two main doubts: can these freezes be caused by a misconfiguration,
> i.e, the modem init string, some option in ppp or minicom, etc, or is it a
> telltale sign that my winmodem module is not working as expected?
>
> And second, the ppp-HOWTO tells me that I MUST obtain the adress of 2 DNS
> from my ISP. But in ppp manpage I found reference to an option -usepeersdns
> that seems to allow obtaining these on the run, as window$ do. Is that so?
>
> As always, any help will be appreciated. :^)
>
> --Jeferson L. Zacco aka Wooky
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Linux registered user #221896
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> Computers are used to solve problems that wouldn't exist if computers
> weren't invented in the first place.
