When I say it hangs I mean it hangs. :-( No mouse, keyboard, CRTL-ALT-DEL,
CRTL-ALT-BKSP, nothing.
Sometimes it won't hang long enough to type ifconfig.
-----Mensagem Original-----
De: "etharp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Para: "Jeferson Lopes Zacco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Enviada em: terça-feira, 31 de julho de 2001 20:27
Assunto: Re: [newbie] ppp panic
> 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
> > -------------------------------------
> > Computers are used to solve problems that wouldn't exist if computers
> > weren't invented in the first place.
