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Re: a new PPP error in the logs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Canary)
Tue Nov 17 23:21:28 1998
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 22:22:09 -0600
From: Robert Canary <rwcanary@ohiocounty.net>
Reply-To: rwcanary@mail.lig.bellsouth.net
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Hi,
Have you tried to use minicom yet to see if you can talk to the modem.
Also double check your IRQs and make sure something else is not crowding
the port.
--
robert
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.
>
> Any clues? Surely an external modem couldn't have been subverted
> to PnP mode? I've tried the "Data Terminal Ready" dipswitch both
> on and off. Linux still doesn't respond, and Win98 will only dial
> with that switch "on".
>
> I'm well versed with the PPP howto, and the docs, but maybe there's
> another worth looking at...
>
> Thanks in anticipation,
>
> Eric Cifreo
> Austin, TX
>
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