Re: PPP

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hello all.  The SuSE install went quite well, and took on the first try
> (although I screwed up the partitioning  and LILO crashed but I figured out
> what I did and reinstalled).

I'm glad it's working for you.

> The first thing I'm trying to do appears to be the most problematic from
> what I've seen in the NGs, etc.  Trying to get my Dial Up going.
> 
> I tried KPPP but it hangs every time on "setting modem volume" and this
> apparently is a bug that's out there.  I then tried WVDIAL which comes with
> SuSE.  It seems to work quite well, auto-detected the external ISDN modem
> and the initialization string.  The modem will dial and connect at which
> point the log says PPPD is starting at <local time> and that's it.  Nothing
> further, nothing in any of the debug logs or anything.
> 
> I tried playing with the /etc/options and /etc/resolv.conf files in many
> different combinations with no results (SuSE actually has some custom
> versions of these files with nice little comment hints to help you debug).
> I tried terminal mode to see exactly what the host requests but I don't get
> anything, is this because it's CHAP?

First, if you're using KPPP (from KDE), you need an empty options 
file.  The ppp options file from other setups conflict with kppp.

If you're using chat scripts with a CHAP ISP, you need to find out
what the last legable string the far modem sends to you, and wait
for that before you exit the chat script.  Use minicom to dial the
number (or a terminal program from windoze), and just see what it
sends to your modem right before the unprintable characters.

I've never used ameritech.net, so I can't be any more specific.
Maybe somebody else can be more help.

> Was hoping one of you guys could help, I'm using Ameritech.Net which you
> guys have back there.  I know it's CHAP, but not sure which variety.  Any
> help would be appreciated.  Oh, and if it's "get such & such dialer" then
> you're going to have to educate me on how to get Linux to read my FAT32
> partition because obviously I can't download anything in Linux right now.

To access your FAT32 partition, you have to mount that partition 
somewhere and access it just like any other directory.

I think the Redhat install already creates a mount entry in the file
/etc/fstab .  Take a look in there and see if there is a line like:

/dev/hda99     /mnt/windoze    vfat    noauto,user,uni_xlate     0 0

The partition number and mount point (directory) will be different,
and the options will probably be a little different.  If there is
no line then create one, or you can specify all the options on the
mount command.

With the line in /etc/fstab, you can just

  mount /mnt/windoze 

Otherwise, you need something like:

  mount /dev/hda99 /mnt/windoze -tvfat -ouni_xlate

which will mount that partition and you can access under the
mount point directory.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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