Subject: PPP/Modem problems and kppp
From: Jose M. (josemanuel@valux.org)
Date: Wed Nov 28 2001 - 02:23:22 MST
Sorry, but with kppp you can increase timings and all works fine, in my iMac (same modem) this was the solution.
Thanks to Dan and other people involved.
Regards.
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Carney, Kevin" <CarneyKJ@Reading-Recovery.org>
Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 12:43:15 -0500
>Hi,
>
>I have a 2000 Powerbook and I had trouble connecting to the internet with my
>internal modem (cobalt modem; ttyS0) with the latest version of YDL. You
>are correct, the problem here is that the dialers are not waiting long
>enough for the modem to power up. Dialers like wvdial and kppp simply don't
>handle this. As far as I know, the only way to get dialers like kppp or
>wvdial to work would be to change the source code of these programs to make
>them wait longer to when opening the serial port (there is no easy way to
>make these dialers wait longer before sending the init string, at least to
>my knowlege.) However, I have had great success connecting to the internet
>using minicom and using chat. Now I usually use the chat scripts found in
>the /usr/share/doc/ppp* directory to connect. (I had to modify these a bit
>to make them work. One can set the TIMEOUT value in the scripts when sending
>the init string to a larger value.) I started making a web page telling how
>I got my modem working on my powerbook, perhaps it could help you out. The
>URL is http://home.earthlink.net/~kcarney2/dialup.html
>
>I hope this helps!
>
>-Kevin
>
>
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