Subject: Re: PPP kernel 2.4.x?
From: Aake Svensson (aakesve@algonet.se)
Date: Thu Aug 23 2001 - 23:47:38 MDT
Thanks for your attention Iain! Its much appreciated!
>... 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.
No it doesn't dial at all! So I tried wvdial instead with following results:
--> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.41
--> Initializing modem.
--> Sending: ATZ
ATZ
OK
--> Sending: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 S11=55 +FCLASS=0
ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 S11=55 +FCLASS=0
OK
--> Modem initialized.
--> Sending: ATDT 95000485570444
--> Waiting for carrier.
ATDT 95000485570444
PROTOCOL: LAP-M
COMPRESSION: V.42BIS
CONNECT 33600
~[7f]}#@!}!1} }8}!}$}&@}%}&I}87.}"}&} } } } }#}$@#OG~
--> Carrier detected. Waiting for prompt.
~[7f]}#@!}!2} }8}!}$}&@}%}&I}87.}"}&} } } } }#}$@#}%U~
--> PPP negotiation detected.
--> Starting pppd at Fri Aug 24 07:24:29 2001
--> PPP daemon has died! (exit code = 2)
--> Disconnecting at Fri Aug 24 07:24:29 2001
--> pppd error! Look at files in /var/log for an explanation.
From /var/log/messages:
<snip>
Aug 24 07:17:01 Linuxserver modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
char-major-174
Aug 24 07:17:02 Linuxserver last message repeated 15 times
Aug 24 07:17:02 Linuxserver modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
char-major-154
Aug 24 07:17:10 Linuxserver last message repeated 255 times
Aug 24 07:17:10 Linuxserver modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
char-major-156
Aug 24 07:17:19 Linuxserver last message repeated 255 times
Aug 24 07:17:34 Linuxserver pppd[1724]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0
Aug 24 07:17:35 Linuxserver chat[1725]: abort on (NO CARRIER)
Aug 24 07:17:35 Linuxserver chat[1725]: abort on (NO DIALTONE)
Aug 24 07:17:35 Linuxserver chat[1725]: abort on (ERROR)
Aug 24 07:17:35 Linuxserver chat[1725]: abort on (NO ANSWER)
Aug 24 07:17:35 Linuxserver chat[1725]: abort on (BUSY)
Aug 24 07:17:35 Linuxserver chat[1725]: abort on (WRONG USER/PASSWORD)
Aug 24 07:17:35 Linuxserver chat[1725]: expect ( )
Aug 24 07:18:20 Linuxserver chat[1725]: alarm
Aug 24 07:18:20 Linuxserver chat[1725]: Failed
Aug 24 07:18:20 Linuxserver pppd[1724]: Connect script failed
Aug 24 07:18:21 Linuxserver pppd[1724]: Exit.
Aug 24 07:19:34 Linuxserver modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
char-major-174
Aug 24 07:19:34 Linuxserver last message repeated 15 times
Aug 24 07:19:35 Linuxserver modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
char-major-154
Aug 24 07:19:43 Linuxserver last message repeated 255 times
Aug 24 07:19:43 Linuxserver modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
char-major-156
Aug 24 07:19:51 Linuxserver last message repeated 255 times
Aug 24 07:20:00 Linuxserver CROND[2454]: (root) CMD ( /sbin/rmmod -as)
Aug 24 07:20:21 Linuxserver pppd[2455]: Can't open options file
/etc/ppp/peers/wvdial: No such file or directory
Aug 24 07:23:04 Linuxserver pppd[2458]: Can't open options file
/etc/ppp/peers/wvdial: No such file or directory
Aug 24 07:24:29 Linuxserver pppd[2460]: Can't open options file
/etc/ppp/peers/wvdial: No such file or directory
<end snip>
I see now, for wvdial i'm missing a file - /etc/ppp/peers/wvdial -
I'll try and fix that. But as you can see there's something wrong
with either pppd or chat and modprobe can't find modules
char-major-xxx, whatever that means! (I know theres a module in the
pppd package called char-major-108)
Hope that this will shed some light!
Regards,
Aake
>
>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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