Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-29 Thread Keith McGavin
On Tue, Aug 29, at 11:23:32AM, Nick Rout wrote: > True, also should these be readable by anyone else? I see they are owned i > by root:dip but only readable by root > > Results ofls -l /etc/ppp/*secrets > > -rw 1 root dip 94 2006-08-29 01:51 /etc/ppp/chap-secrets > > -rw-

Re: modem strings

2006-08-28 Thread Christopher Sawtell
Hi folks, This thread is beginning to get out of control. Could someone lend me a pci modem with one of these Lucent/Agere chipsets in it for a little while so I can experiment with it? I have a few ideas to try but cannot be away from home for hours on end. -- CS

RE: Modem Strings

2006-08-28 Thread Maurice Butler
Hi Alan, Great perseverance try commenting out one or the other and see what happens - ie so you can identify which line is causing the problem - could be as simple as a non printing character that has accidently ended up in a line. The pid is a processIdentifier - every running process is aloc

Please stop feeding the troll WAS Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-28 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:02:51 +1200 Robert Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 29 August 2006 2:52 pm, Andrew Errington wrote: > > > Rik, what are you smoking? > > > > Apart from the nonsensical drivel I snipped, this post is bereft of > > technical merit. > > > I agree. > > Would anyo

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-28 Thread Robert Fisher
On Tuesday 29 August 2006 2:52 pm, Andrew Errington wrote: > Rik, what are you smoking? > > Apart from the nonsensical drivel I snipped, this post is bereft of > technical merit. > I agree. Would anyone like to join me in inviting Rik to come to a meeting and elaborate on whatever it is that ail

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-28 Thread Andrew Errington
> Alan's modem ppp may well need this to hold the connection, eventually: > > $sudo adduser zl3kr dip > > But YMMV - I do not know for sure. I left KDE behind at the same time as > my Winmodem. (GNU/)Linux started making sense after that. Rik, what are you smoking? Apart from the nonsensical dri

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-28 Thread Rik Tindall
Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Tuesday 29 August 2006 08:54, Steve Holdoway wrote: Does this and related threads now hold the record for the longest ever on the CLUG list (: At 245 + ( I think I might have deleted a few messages ) I believe so. Things have changed. Noobs used to be belittled

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-28 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:11:25 +1200 Alan wrote: > Sorry I forgot to say that I had run wvdial in both user and root and > the screens were the same. > > Regarding pap-secrets > All the lines bar that one are commented out, does that make a > difference, or should I remove everything except the

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-28 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Tuesday 29 August 2006 08:54, Steve Holdoway wrote: > Does this and related threads now hold the record for the longest ever on > the CLUG list (: At 245 + ( I think I might have deleted a few messages ) I believe so. -- CS

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-28 Thread Nick Rout
True, also should these be readable by anyone else? I see they are owned by root:dip but only readable by root Alan, you were going to rum wvdial as root and get back to us. On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 10:59:21 +1200 Steve Holdoway wrote: > pap-secrets is just plain far too big. Both the *secrets file

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-28 Thread Steve Holdoway
pap-secrets is just plain far too big. Both the *secrets files should contain the same single line: username* password and nothing else. Steve On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 10:53:52 +1200 Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Firstly apologies I wasnt aware that attachments were not allowed,

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-28 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 08:46:56 +1200 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > "2 An error was detected in processing the options given, such as two > mutually exclusive options being used." > > So you have two inconsistent options somewhere by the look of it. ...the reason I suggested dumpin

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-28 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:10:17 +1200 Alan wrote: > I have verified that the correct name and password are in both > pap-secrest and chap-secrets. > also retyped the password in when trying with kppp. > The lcp intrerval is currently set at 60 and failure set at 6 > I have changed it to chap/pap in

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-28 Thread Isaac Devine
On 8/28/06, Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 28 August 2006 17:10, Alan wrote: > I have verified that the correct name and password are in both > pap-secrest and chap-secrets. > also retyped the password in when trying with kppp. > The lcp intrerval is currently set at 60

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-27 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Monday 28 August 2006 17:10, Alan wrote: > I have verified that the correct name and password are in both > pap-secrest and chap-secrets. > also retyped the password in when trying with kppp. > The lcp intrerval is currently set at 60 and failure set at 6 > I have changed it to chap/pap in the o

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-27 Thread Steve Holdoway
I hope that's pap-secrets, not pap_secrets! The correct format is... username* password ie zl3kr * password 1 line, no dots - unless they're part of the name - these should be exactly ( case sensitive ) what you use in the username and password fields in windows, with t

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-27 Thread Rik Tindall
This looks to be simply a permissions shortage for ppp. Root has to give Alan read-write access to.. "pap-secrets and chap-secrets"? - Can't recall what it was I had to change thus, back in RedHat days.. Can root dial out ok w/wvdial? Alan wrote: I have verified that the correct name and passw

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-27 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:31:55 +1200 Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Monday 28 August 2006 12:27, Nick Rout wrote: > > It is very unclear to me whether it is dying because of failed > > authentication, or because it fails to start ppp after successfully > > authenticating > I think it only manages

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-27 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Monday 28 August 2006 12:27, Nick Rout wrote: > It is very unclear to me whether it is dying because of failed > authentication, or because it fails to start ppp after successfully > authenticating I think it only manages to dial the number, and make an attempt to create a data connection, but

Re: Modem strings

2006-08-27 Thread Warwick Hay
On Friday 25 August 2006 18:18, Alan wrote: > Oooops just noticed you sed you had already sent me that info.I > dont remember it but will have a look back and try to find if I still > have it in the inbox Nick. > > Alan Alan, Sorry this is a bit late, but there is a bit of a trap in k

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-27 Thread Nick Rout
It is very unclear to me whether it is dying because of failed authentication, or because it fails to start ppp after successfully authenticating I know this sounds trite, but could you please check that your username (zl3kr) and password are set properly. The dialog box in kppp will only reveal *

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-27 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Monday 28 August 2006 10:03, Alan wrote: > ok removed the + sign and just as it connected it said pppd Daemon died > suddenly. According to the manual page neither '+pap' nor 'pap' are legal options. the manual page documents these extended pap options:- papcrypt pap-max-authreq n

Re: Modem strings

2006-08-27 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sunday 27 August 2006 22:29, Steve Holdoway wrote: > aah, but now you *are* making a connection, at an acceptable speed. The > problem is now authentication, which is what this file is all about. I fear that there is more to the problem than just that, because when an external modem - with no o

Re: Modem strings

2006-08-27 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:35:53 +1200 Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > tried that Steve, it tried several times but couldnt establish the > connectionI did run wvdial this time instead of kppp. > when running wvdial, how do you stop it from trying or is automatically > set to stop after so man

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-27 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sunday 27 August 2006 19:03, Alan wrote: > Right Christopher here are the two that you wanted by the 3way I > think cp stands for copy Indeed it does! > but what does the grep command mean please(sometime). Global Regular Expression Print. The command:- man grep or putting #grep into the L

Re: modem strings

2006-08-27 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sunday 27 August 2006 19:22, Alan wrote: > Christopher, just a question. in the messages I see a line: > pppd 2.4.4b1 started by Alan, uid 1000 > > Just wondering if the Alan might clash with my log in name of > zl3kr probably nothing to do with it, but thought I would ask. I don't

Re: Modem Strings - some testing with mepis and ltmodem

2006-08-27 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
Well done Nick! Do I understand you correctly that it didn't work until you added the debug to pppd? That points to a bug in pppd. > The kppp log shows that the only initialisation sent to the modem is > > ATZ > ATM1L1 > ATDT (then ihug's number) This may be the only initialisation which is sen

Re: Modem Strings - some testing with mepis and ltmodem

2006-08-27 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 14:55:11 +1200 Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have just done some tests. My son's IBM T20 laptop has a modem which uses the ltmodem driver (but he has windows installed). I have an account at ihug. I have a mepis 6.0 live cd. So I booted it in the T20 and ga

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-27 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 19:03:44 +1200 Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Right Christopher here are the two that you wanted by the 3way I > think cp stands for copy > but what does the grep command mean please(sometime). > > Alan > There's a load of weird sh*t in there! How about cd /etc

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-26 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sunday 27 August 2006 13:47, Alan wrote: > the removal of the B commands seems to have stopped the attempt to go > 1200 baud Good. That's to be expected. Now we know exactly what B command does. All we need now is a precise copy of /etc/ppp/options and the tail of the pppd entries into the /va

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-26 Thread Alan
Rik Tindall wrote: more ideas.. Christopher Sawtell wrote: Also note that the init strings in Kppp should be:- Init 1: AT &F E0 &C1 &D2 V1 S0=0\V1 and Init 2: ATS7=60S30=0L0M1\N3%C1&K3N1\J1X4# I have removed the B commands Can we try Init 2: AT S7=60 S30=0 L0M1\N3 %C1&K3N1\J1X4 an

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-26 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 00:02:15 +1200 Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 26 August 2006 21:52, Alan wrote: > > OK changed that line but still does not sound right when dialling out > > but same result as last time. > > Cut that line out and it sounds to be dialling normally

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-26 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 09:59:00 +1200 Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well Christopher I put all those lines into the options file and the > grep showed they were all there (yes it was a $ not an S...I guess the > letter S is in ass(me) also redid the init 1 and 2 lines as you > suggested. >

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-26 Thread Rik Tindall
more ideas.. Christopher Sawtell wrote: Also note that the init strings in Kppp should be:- Init 1: AT &F E0 &C1 &D2 V1 S0=0\V1 and Init 2: ATS7=60S30=0L0M1\N3%C1&K3N1\J1X4# I have removed the B commands Can we try Init 2: AT S7=60 S30=0 L0M1\N3 %C1&K3N1\J1X4 and run it with, then with

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-26 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Saturday 26 August 2006 21:52, Alan wrote: > OK changed that line but still does not sound right when dialling out > but same result as last time. > Cut that line out and it sounds to be dialling normally but still does > not confirm connection. > > Options: has the following set > asyn

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-26 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Saturday 26 August 2006 19:31, Alan wrote: > My thoughts are that the last setting set the modem to call out at > 1200bps, going by the sound of the outgoing tones Correct - going by the definitive 'CONNECT 1200' in the image you posted. > If the B references are redundant then the Modem should

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-25 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Saturday 26 August 2006 16:51, Alan wrote: > OK here goes, now I hav e put the added part in brackets after the > initial string which sets the country(the brackets are not in the actual > entry. Let's parse it out. See:- http://www.dynalink.co.nz/files/pdfs/lucent_v90_atcom.pdf AT+GCI=7E

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-25 Thread Rik Tindall
Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Saturday 26 August 2006 14:35, Rik Tindall wrote: Alan wrote: I dont know how to interpret it attached is a snapshot of the kpp modem commands screen, note that it includes changes to init string 2 made when Christopher was here... the changes did not

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-25 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Saturday 26 August 2006 14:29, Col wrote: > Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > On Saturday 26 August 2006 12:32, Nick Rout wrote: > >> That certainly seems to show the required info, now do those > >> initialisation strings help matters at all? > > > > All alternate characters seem to be nulls. > >

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-25 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Saturday 26 August 2006 14:35, Rik Tindall wrote: > Alan wrote: > > I dont know how to interpret it attached is a snapshot of the kpp > > modem commands screen, > > note that it includes changes to init string 2 made when Christopher > > was here... the changes did not make any difference b

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-25 Thread Rik Tindall
Alan wrote: I dont know how to interpret it attached is a snapshot of the kpp modem commands screen, note that it includes changes to init string 2 made when Christopher was here... the changes did not make any difference but I have not removed them as yet. Can you please copy & post stri

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-25 Thread Col
Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Saturday 26 August 2006 12:32, Nick Rout wrote: That certainly seems to show the required info, now do those initialisation strings help matters at all? All alternate characters seem to be nulls. How is this file encoded? On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:42:45 +1200 Alan

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-25 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Saturday 26 August 2006 12:32, Nick Rout wrote: > That certainly seems to show the required info, now do those > initialisation strings help matters at all? All alternate characters seem to be nulls. How is this file encoded? > > On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:42:45 +1200 > > Alan wrote: > > is this t

Re: Modem Strings

2006-08-25 Thread Nick Rout
That certainly seems to show the required info, now do those initialisation strings help matters at all? On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:42:45 +1200 Alan wrote: > is this the file that you are looking for, I hope I have got it right. > > Alan -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Modem strings

2006-08-25 Thread Rik Tindall
Alan wrote: Oooops just noticed you sed you had already sent me that info.I dont remember it but will have a look back and try to find if I still have it in the inbox Nick. If you don't you can look it up here: http://lists.ethernal.org/oldarchives/ -- Rik