Subject: Re: PPP kernel 2.4.x?
From: Iain Stevenson (iain@IainStevenson.com)
Date: Thu Aug 23 2001 - 06:55:00 MDT
... does it actually at any stage cause a dial out on the modem? You
probably need to diagnose the problem in two stages. First, it has to dial,
then it has to start pppd.
Maybe the script to do the dialling is missing some vital piece of
configuration. You could post the scripts you used in this step
> *Reading up on ppp-configuration - "PPP-How to", ISP-Hookup etc etc - found at
> Google etc - and tried writing chatscript in /etc/ppp/ and "isp" script in
> /etc/ppp/peers/
to the list.
Iain
on 23/8/01 1:32 pm, Aake Svensson at aakesve@algonet.se wrote:
>> Aake,
>>
>> on 23/8/01 10:36 am, Aake Svensson at aakesve@algonet.se wrote:
>>
>>> * Trying 'pppd' only. at the command line produces garbled lines of
>>> text until the prompt comes back again.
>>> *Trying exactly to write scripts as recommended in the pppd man page
>>> and running "pppd call 'script' " only gets me back to the prompt
>>> without any delay and/or messages.
>>
>> It's a long time since I used pppd ... but, maybe it's outputting the ppp
>> protocol stuff to the console. It would certainly look like garbled text.
>>
>> I think it's a bit unusual to start pppd from the command line - you'd
>> usually only start it once a modem connection is established using a utility
>> such as 'chat'.
>>
>>
>>
>> Iain
>
>
> I know, I try pppd just to see what's happening and I used to get the
> message about "Kernel lacks ppp support ..., but now it's just
> garbled.
> I've also tried 'ppp call 'script' ' which man pppd recommends and
> that just gives a prompt.
>
> In a new reply to my first mail I've included some error messages
> from dmesg and /var/log/messages, please take a look at them! Hope
> they can shed some light on the matter.
>
> I understand that PPP is not a common Unix/Linux thing as most Linux
> people roam around in large networks or on large servers, but one has
> to start somewhere to learn, especially since the learning curve is
> so fascinating!
>
> Regards,
> Aake Svensson
>
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