Disappointed with smpppd on 8.0 - wvdial fine.
Well after getting some expert help. I was able to configure 8.0 to do dial on demand the suse way. My Provider ( or the charity whose machine it will be ) is BTConnect. However I can only get a connection every now and then. So I thought about it, copied some values from my provider details into wvdial.conf and ran wvdial. Instant success. Soooo. Im gonna ditch using smpppd and go back to looking at diald pity as I wanted to do it the 'clean' way. hope this helps someone to stop banging there head against a wall in the future. dids
On Thursday 09 May 2002 16:22, dids wrote:
Instant success.
Quick question: do you by any chance have "Stupid Mode = 1" in your wvdial.conf? I had a problem a while ago where an ISP would only accept a connection one time in ten. It turned out that the problem was a timeout before ppp was started. Sometimes pppd was started before the timeout, most times it wasn't. With stupid mode it's started immediately. If that's your problem you can get smpppd to work by adding STUPIDMODE=yes in your provider-file in /etc/sysconfig/network/providers (I haven't found a yast way of doing it yet). regards Anders
Hi All, Below are my commands, that I use mt -f /dev/nst0 oem for full backup. However, when the operation completes, the system backs up only the new files instead of appending the new files to the existing ones. mt -f /dev/nst0 oem tar -cvf /dev/nst0 /Disk05 tar -cvf /dev/nst0 /Disk04 to verify the tape archieve's contents tar -dvf /dev/nst0 or tar -tvf /dev/nst0 . The output is the files on this Disk04 only. Anyone has a fix, please help. Thanks a lot Trang --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Mother's Day is May 12th!
On torsdagen den 9 maj 2002 16.43, Meomeo Nguyen wrote:
Hi All, Below are my commands, that I use mt -f /dev/nst0 oem for full backup.
Do you *really* use 'oem' or is that a typo in this mail? The mt command to forward to the end of the recorded files on the tape is "eom" (End Of Media). //Anders
D'oh !!! You fixed it.
Quick question: do you by any chance have "Stupid Mode = 1" in your wvdial.conf?
Well I didnt but I just added it to the provider file anyway and bobs your aunty it worked !! Out of interest where will I find documentation on the parameter "Stupid Mode" ?? thanks !!! dids
I had a problem a while ago where an ISP would only accept a connection one time in ten. It turned out that the problem was a timeout before ppp was started. Sometimes pppd was started before the timeout, most times it wasn't. With stupid mode it's started immediately.
If that's your problem you can get smpppd to work by adding STUPIDMODE=yes in your provider-file in /etc/sysconfig/network/providers (I haven't found a yast way of doing it yet).
regards Anders
On Thursday 09 May 2002 17.18, dids wrote:
Out of interest where will I find documentation on the parameter "Stupid Mode" ??
man wvdial and man wvdial.conf Stupid Mode When wvdial is in Stupid Mode, it does not attempt to interpret any prompts from the terminal server. It starts pppd immediately after the modem con nects. Apparently there are ISP's that actually give you a login prompt, but work only if you start PPP, rather than logging in. Go figure. Stupid Mode is (naturally) disabled by default. smpppd uses wvdial to connect, it just doesn't use /etc/wvdial.conf, it creates its own wvdial.conf based on values in the provider file. //Anders
I was convinced that this business about stupid mode would be the answer to the poor connection ability of kinternet in 8.0, but tried Anders' fix without any real benefit. Wvdial remained much more reliable. Now I like wvdial, but because connections drop out quite a bit on my dialup connection at home, it's a virtue to have kinternet's little graphical plug icon working away letting me know if I'm connected. If you right-click kinternet, you can pick an option to view the configuration - does anyone know where that info is coming from - is it a combination of (from memory) /etc/sysconfig/network/providers/$PROVIDER and an smpppd.conf somewhere (not on 8.0 as I write), or where does it come from? I notice it didn't show the STUPIDMODE=yes that I put in for the provider - does that mean kinternet wasn't reading it? I logged in and out of kde and restarted kinternet with no change. Who knows how the config works in 8.0? Best Fergus On Thursday 09 May 2002 15:31, you wrote:
On Thursday 09 May 2002 16:22, dids wrote:
Instant success.
Quick question: do you by any chance have "Stupid Mode = 1" in your wvdial.conf?
I had a problem a while ago where an ISP would only accept a connection one time in ten. It turned out that the problem was a timeout before ppp was started. Sometimes pppd was started before the timeout, most times it wasn't. With stupid mode it's started immediately.
If that's your problem you can get smpppd to work by adding STUPIDMODE=yes in your provider-file in /etc/sysconfig/network/providers (I haven't found a yast way of doing it yet).
regards Anders
On Friday 10 May 2002 16:13, Fergus Wilde wrote:
I was convinced that this business about stupid mode would be the answer to the poor connection ability of kinternet in 8.0, but tried Anders' fix without any real benefit. Wvdial remained much more reliable. Now I like wvdial, but because connections drop out quite a bit on my dialup connection at home, it's a virtue to have kinternet's little graphical plug icon working away letting me know if I'm connected.
If you right-click kinternet, you can pick an option to view the configuration - does anyone know where that info is coming from - is it a combination of (from memory) /etc/sysconfig/network/providers/$PROVIDER and an smpppd.conf somewhere (not on 8.0 as I write), or where does it come from? I notice it didn't show the STUPIDMODE=yes that I put in for the provider - does that mean kinternet wasn't reading it? I logged in and out of kde and restarted kinternet with no change.
Who knows how the config works in 8.0? Best Fergus
On Thursday 09 May 2002 15:31, you wrote:
On Thursday 09 May 2002 16:22, dids wrote:
Instant success.
Quick question: do you by any chance have "Stupid Mode = 1" in your wvdial.conf?
I had a problem a while ago where an ISP would only accept a connection one time in ten. It turned out that the problem was a timeout before ppp was started. Sometimes pppd was started before the timeout, most times it wasn't. With stupid mode it's started immediately.
If that's your problem you can get smpppd to work by adding STUPIDMODE=yes in your provider-file in /etc/sysconfig/network/providers (I haven't found a yast way of doing it yet).
regards Anders
just read the documentation in /usr/share/doc/packages/smpppd, everything is explained there -- regards, Frederik Vos www.vosberg.be
On Friday 10 May 2002 16.13, Fergus Wilde wrote:
Wvdial remained much more reliable.
That's slightly odd, considering KInternet uses wvdial to establish connection.
If you right-click kinternet, you can pick an option to view the configuration - does anyone know where that info is coming from - is it a combination of (from memory) /etc/sysconfig/network/providers/$PROVIDER and an smpppd.conf somewhere (not on 8.0 as I write), or where does it come from? I notice it didn't show the STUPIDMODE=yes that I put in for the provider - does that mean kinternet wasn't reading it? I logged in and out of kde and restarted kinternet with no change.
Not sure why you can't see it in "View Configuration", but you can see the settings KInternet uses in /var/run/smpppd/wvdial-tmp.conf (created after you initiate a dial-out from settings in the providers file) and stupid mode is in there, even if you can't see it in the gui. regards Anders
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