Try having a look at man wvdial, it may help. Brian Marr NAME wvdial - PPP dialer with built-in intelligence. SYNOPSIS wvdial --help | --version | --chat | --no-syslog | sec tion... DESCRIPTION wvdial is an intelligent PPP dialer, which means that it dials a modem and starts PPP in order to connect to the Internet. It is something like the chat(8) program, except that it uses heuristics to guess how to dial and log into your server rather than forcing you to write a login script. When wvdial starts, it first loads its configuration from /etc/wvdial.conf and ~/.wvdialrc which contains basic information about the modem port, speed, and init string, along with information about your Internet Service Provider (ISP), such as the phone number, your username, and your password. Then it initializes your modem and dials the server and waits for a connection (a CONNECT string from the modem). It understands and responds to typical connection problems (like BUSY and NO DIALTONE). Any time after connecting, wvdial will start PPP if it sees a PPP sequence from the server. Otherwise, it tries to convince the server to start PPP by doing the follow ing: On Friday 27 December 2002 07:15, you wrote:
Gilson & Michael, Thanks for the advice & help... Tried the advice. Works great in Windoz & Config data looks the same. US Robotics Serial port External Modem...Supposedly all external US Robotics are supported. It dials and connects around the same speeds as window (44,000 or so) but disconnects Immediately with the error message "ppp daemon suddenly died"
Under details it says: :Unable to access /var/log/syslog.ppp, /var/log/syslog, and also
/var/log/messages. It says "error message 17"- For further info, go to devel-home.kde.org/~kppp/index.html, but when i do, the server cannot find the page, and the www.kde.org site has no search or Kppp manual pages I can find. Modem intialization string is ATZE0 &T5 &U29 Y1 Thanks again for any hints...Keith
1- I'm not familiar with the Robotics line. Does the box/literature say it's
designed to work with Linux? I have a BEST DATA which says "Micr.....&
Linux
compatible". 2- Open YaST2 Control Center, Network/Basic, Modem configuration. Does it
say
"Modem (your ISP)? Highlight it and click on Edit. Is ALL the information there correct? Click on Next. Does it show your ISP and "Modem 0" (unless
you
have more than one modem active.) If everything is correct, click on
Abort.
3- Click on Kmenu, Internet, Tools, Internet Dialer. In the bottom row of
the
small screen, click on Setup. In Accounts, click on New and enter the information about your ISP and then yourself. In Device tab, it probably
says
"/dev/modem". Click on the small arrow and highlight "/dev/ttyS0". Click
on
OK and click on Connect. What happens?
All the best, -- gr
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