[99050] in RedHat Linux List
Dialup problems, is my config bad?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Shoberg)
Wed Nov 11 21:10:11 1998
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 21:09:47 -0500
From: Jon Shoberg <jshoberg@cbd.net>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com, janc@iname.com
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Alrighty,
It seems anymore I come home and have to fight this OS for a good 45min
to an hour just to dialout. Part of it is that my ISP is getting large
enough now that its phones are not answering and timing out.
I am a single user of Red Hat (5.2). I am and will be the only person
on my machine, aside from my buddy root :) Now, I like how I can set
the box to dialout durring the boot process (basically the last thing it
does) and by the time Xwindows is started, I'm ready to roll. The
option to login is set via 'linuxconf' as root.
Problem 1:
If the ISP does not answer and times out, I might as well reboot. The
modem (/dev/cua0) becomes locked and I made popcorn, come back and the
OS hasn't released that device by then. How can I unlock it to dial out
again?
Problem 2:
Once the modem is unlocked and Linuxhas booted, how do I start a dialup
again? I saw Jan Carlson's post about 3 steps to PPP. For me,
/sbin/ppp0 as either 'root' or user login does nothing. However, it
will login durring boot or sometimes log back in, after the connection
was dropped.
Obviously I can dialin and get it working after a fasion. However,
fighting for 45 min to get it working really cuts back on my time to
replay to Email and all of those who reply in private to me (which I
appreciate greatly.) Dialup works, jsut somenight more problems than
others.
thanks
- jon
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