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Re: a new PPP error in the logs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Tue Nov 17 15:32:30 1998
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 15:24:06 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Eric Cifreo wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Made a linux convert recently. We installed RH 5.1 along with
> his existing Win 98 install on a Pentium 133, 48M RAM. Both
> systems boot smoothly, and everything seems to be in order.
>
> Win98 can drive the USR Sportster 33.6 fine, but for some
> reason Linux won't dial. When using kppp, we get "Sorry,
> modem not ready." From the command line or from netcfg,
> there is no complaint at the console, but the ppp0
> interface doesn't come up.
>
> /var/log/messages says, "PPP line discipline successfully
> registered, tcgetattr (I/O error)." I have set up ppp on
> a handful of other machines, but have never run across this
> one.
COM1 = /dev/ttyS0 = /dev/cua0
COM2 = /dev/ttyS1 = /dev/cua1
could that be the problem?
Check # ls -l /dev/modem to see what it points to.
Try also
# cu -l /dev/xxxx -s 38400
with xxxx being ttyS0, ttyS1, cua0, cua1, modem.
The cu program is the very simplest way to talk to a modem.
It is part of the uucp rpm, which you need to have installed.
Try AT<return>
and ATDT<isp-phone-no><return>
To exit from cu, type tilde-dot (~.).
Little cu is simple and easier than messing with minicom or xminicom,
as a test of the serial ports and the modem.
Set the modem dip switches to the normal settings for W98.
--
Jan Carlson
janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Mailed with Netscape 4.5 on Red Hat Linux 5.2
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