Re: [SLUG] modems,ppp, linux (will I ever get online!)

2003-08-31 Thread Brad Kowalczyk
James Gregory wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 12:34, Brad Kowalczyk wrote: I tried using linuxconf to settup my ppp (as per a ppp howto) but it still does not work and now my system hangs on bootup while trying to bring up the ppp0 interface. I'm affraid I'm wasting everyones time

Re: [SLUG] modems,ppp, linux (will I ever get online!)

2003-08-31 Thread James Gregory
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 12:34, Brad Kowalczyk wrote: > I tried using linuxconf to settup my ppp (as per a ppp howto) but it > still does not work and now my system hangs on bootup while trying to > bring up the ppp0 interface. I'm affraid I'm wasting everyones time with > this, I really dont seem

Re: [SLUG] modems,ppp, linux (will I ever get online!)

2003-08-30 Thread Brad Kowalczyk
James Gregory wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 00:02, Brad Kowalczyk wrote: James Gregory wrote: I would do what the other poster suggested -- use minicom to test that your computer is in fact talking to the modem. Then you can be sure of the port etc, and you can punch those details into k

Re: [SLUG] modems,ppp, linux (will I ever get online!)

2003-08-27 Thread Richard Neal
hai Yeah I used Bigpond for a while and I found the so called 56k connection not that flash. The best fix I found was one or both of the following. 1. Ask Bigpond for their 28/38k dial up numbers. 2. Set kppp on 38.6k, this wont effect the over all speed just make the handshake a little bit mor

Re: [SLUG] modems,ppp, linux (will I ever get online!)

2003-08-26 Thread James Gregory
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 09:37, Alexander Samad wrote: > Something you might want to try is use > > minicom and type commands that you have in your chatscript. Yeah, minicom's a great tool for debugging this stuff. The other thing I'd recommend is using mcc (mandrake control center) to set it up.

Re: [SLUG] modems,ppp, linux (will I ever get online!)

2003-08-25 Thread Alexander Samad
Something you might want to try is use minicom and type commands that you have in your chatscript. The next step would be, bring it back up with pppd and try to ping across the link, then if it falls over try the ati11 - no on all modems, but give you a diagnosis of the last call, including th

[SLUG] modems,ppp, linux (will I ever get online!)

2003-08-25 Thread Brad Kowalczyk
Its been about 2 months since my last attempt so I thought I might try to get a net connection happening on my Linux box again. This time with a *real* modem that I know works and on Mandrake 9.1 ... dah! Everything goes fine under kppp until "logging into network" and then I get a pppd timeout