Re: need help

[Scott Yellig <syellig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As far as i can tell from what you said.. you're not running the PPP
Daemon. The command is 'pppd' which acts as the user-land program that
commnicates between the serial device and the network layers of the
kernel.

SO. Lets see:

After you get connected and the ppp garbage starts coming ( the ~}#.!}!}!}
}4~ and such is the ppp as minicom has interepreted it in ASCII )

Anyway.. after it starts doing that, quit without hanging up the modem and
run  this command:

/usr/sbin/pppd /dev/cua0 38400

You might need to change that 38400 to whatever the status line in minicom
reports as the port speed (i think it defaults to 38400)

After you run that, switch to another tty and try running ping and such.
If this works, then we can work on automating all this crap :P

Oh, one more thing, make sure you're running pppd as root.
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On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Justin Miller wrote:

> Alright, howdy.
> I edit /ect/ppp/options and it now looks like this:
> 
> lock
> defaultroute
> noipdefault
> modem
> /dev/cua0
> 57600
> crtscts
> debug
> 
> and I also edited /etc/resolv.conf so it now looks like this:
> 
> domain dmci.net
> search dmci.net
> nameserver 198.109.130.33
> nameserver 198.252.194.121
> 
> 
> Okay, the weird happens when I use minicom to dial my isp.  I dial the
> number of my isp and connect. I put in the right user name and password then
> I get the following message:
> 
> PPP session from (my isp) to <my IP> beginning....~ÿ}#.!}!}!} }4~
> 
> It then stops there. Then after maybe 30 seconds the modem hangs up and it
> displays
> 
> NO CARRIER
> 
> or
> 
> A  couple of times the text kept coming after a couple of seconds. Then I
> would press Alt-Q, to shutdown without reseting the modem. Then I tried
> "ping dmci.net" to see if I was actually connected or not and it said it
> couldn't find dmci.net. Then maybe a minute later the modem hangs itself up.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
>