Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3470 mails)

[Bernd <bernd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday, 16 September, 2003 18:34, Bob S. wrote:

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>
> Bernd,
>
> I have the exact same modem and have been using it since 7.1.
> It has been a PITA to set it up, but once done it works very well.
> Been through 4 upgrades since then 7.3, 8.0, 8,1, and now 8.2
> Had to manually configure it every time even though Seems that
> SuSE is not very user friendly for PCI modems.  YAST recognizes it but
> does not install it.  It is ttyS4  It must be linked to /dev/modem. I
> have only been able to make it work with kinternet, never WVdial. Can't
> remember exactly but I had to make some changes in KPPP and peers. I
> missed the earliest part of the thread so Iam not sure exactly what
> your problem is.

Bob S., 

I TRULY appreciate your response!  My first question to you is:  Can you 
REALLY stay online as long as you want to???

My first thread started on 08/15 as "PPP connection keeps dropping, and 
another related problem."  I learned a few things, and kept trying, yet 
without ultimate success.

So you get an idea of what problem remains, here's the beginning of the thread 
dated 09/02, before (Revisited) was added:

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pppd keeps receiving a (SIGHUP) (exit code = 16) and drops. I get dropped as 
quick as 30 seconds, and CANNOT get past 59.4 minutes, EVER.

I'm using 8.1 with KDE 3.1.1, with a U.S. Robotics 56K Performance Pro V.92 
PCI modem, which is fully supported (modem drivers are in kernel 2.3 and 
higher).  I manually start/stop my connection with WVDial or KInternet.

I rewired the phone line, put the modem in a new slot, removed nearby 
electrical equipment, contacted the ISP, tested on 3 different phone 
networks, used wvdialconf to setup the modem, added additional codes to the 
init string when the wvdialconf string didn't fix the problem, dropped my 
firewall, and the list goes on, and on.  Then I remembered I still had a 
partition with WindozeME on it.

Set up the modem in windoze.  When I checked the configuration, I found the 
init string was different.  I added two more codes to the string in windoze, 
and tested it out.

- Strange thing -

I started several small downloads (12M total), and let it run.  I was able to 
download the files, then stayed idle for a total of 5 hours before my ISP 
dropped me!!!  Tried it again in windoze (to see if I could do it again), 
this time with a 78M file.  Again!!!  5 hours went by before my ISP dropped 
me, and before the whole file was downloaded, which meant no idle time.

- Stranger thing -

Great! (right?)  So I booted into SuSE, changed the init string to the SAME 
one I had success with in windoze (because the previous one wvdialconf set 
didn't work).  Then I tested it the same way I did in windoze.  pppd received 
a (SIGHUP) at 33.1 minutes and died, and then again at 26.6 minutes and died.

Afterward, I tried it again in windoze, and got the same 5 hours before my ISP 
dumped me.
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> You do need to know what protocol your ISP is using, PAP, CHAP, or
> whatever and make appropriate entries in those files. Mine uses PAP.

My ISP says that they are using neither PAP, or CHAP, but a straight login.

> Make sure that your options file is edited properly, and that the line
> "plugin  passwordfd.so" is in your /ppp/peers/kppp file.

It is, and is being loaded each time pppd starts.

>Read the ppp HOWTO. It helped me get this thing going.

Where can I find the HOWTO?  Is it a SuSE HOWTO or general linux?  I scoured 
man pppd over and over in the past, and again today.  I did find that 
according to the "Authentication" section of man pppd, that authentication 
must be satisfactorily completed before IPCP can be started.  I am 
successfully sending and receiving IPCP transmissions to establish IP and DNS 
addresses.

This is what's happening in the KInternet logs:

*When I am dumped - 

We are connected. (2003-09-17 09:27:47 PDT)
pppd: Hangup (SIGHUP)
pppd: Modem hangup
pppd: cbcp_lowerdown
pppd: Script /etc/ppp/ip-down started (pid 14391)
pppd: Connection terminated.
pppd: Connect time 59.4 minutes.
pppd: Sent 145015 bytes, received 1541806 bytes.
pppd: Waiting for 1 child processes...
pppd:   script /etc/ppp/ip-down, pid 14391
pppd: Script /etc/ppp/ip-down finished (pid 14391), status = 0x0
We are disconnected. (2003-09-17 10:27:10 PDT)
pppd died: A modem hung up the phone (exit code 16)

*When I take myself down - 

We are connected. (2003-09-17 12:33:04 PDT)
Stopping connection. (2003-09-17 13:04:27 PDT)
pppd: Terminating on signal 15.
pppd: cbcp_lowerdown
pppd: Script /etc/ppp/ip-down started (pid 16331)
pppd: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x2 "User request"]
pppd: rcvd [LCP TermAck id=0x2]
pppd: Connection terminated.
pppd: Connect time 31.5 minutes.
pppd: Sent 65550 bytes, received 601502 bytes.
pppd: Hangup (SIGHUP)
pppd: Waiting for 1 child processes...
pppd:   script /etc/ppp/ip-down, pid 16331
pppd: Script /etc/ppp/ip-down finished (pid 16331), status = 0x0
We are disconnected. (2003-09-17 13:04:28 PDT)
pppd died: pppd received a signal (exit code 5)

I'm not sure where to go from here!!!

Bernd
-- 
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather
wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them
to yearn for the vast and endless sea."

Antoine de St. Exupery