Re: ppp connection with Demon

1998-09-21 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
I got my PPP connection to Demon to work, eventually. My experience is on line at http://www.rano.demon.co.uk/demon.html. (I'm not sure it helps particularly with the problems described in this thread, however.) I got get-news to work yesterday, but I'm still working on nntpsend, so if anyone has

Re: ppp connection with Demon

1998-09-07 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Tom Bowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Incidentally it's not just receiving and sending data that is > slow. There is also a 20-30 second delay between sending the modem > initialisation (and phone number for that matter) strings and > getting any response. Could it be something to do with the s

Re: ppp connection with Demon

1998-09-05 Thread shaul
Perhaps I can help you a bit: 1) PPP HOWTO and /usr/doc/ppp/* help a lot. 2) You might did it already, but one thing to do when trying to test the connection is to log in as root. This way you can eliminate problems that can rise because of unsatisfactory permitions untill after you know you ca

Re: ppp connection with Demon

1998-09-04 Thread Tom Bowles
Thanks very much to Roland Hinkley for sending me his chatscript, but still no luck I'm afraid. When I use minicom, the message I get back says 57600, so I suppose I should have a nice fast connection but I don't. It takes about 20 seconds after the login prompt before the password prompt c

ppp connection with Demon

1998-09-04 Thread Tom Bowles
I have never used linux before, so I'm groping around a bit.   I am trying to connect to Demon Internet using a chatscript. The server is able to use either PAP or text-based login, but I got furthest with text-based. I set ppp up with pppconfig and I have checked the /etc/ppp/peers/Demon i