Re: need help

[mike <troll@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Scott Yellig wrote:
> 
> 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
If your ppp/options looks like that, you can just type pppd, using the
full path as in /usr/sbin/pppd without spelling out all the options
since pppd looks at ppp/options to tell it how to behave.

> >
> > 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?
> >

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-Mike List