Carlos E. R. wrote:
The 03.10.05 at 12:49, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
More info required :-)
What type, log info or hardware info?
Good question :-)
Which directory can I find the necessary log info?
Most would be in file /var/log/messages, but also in /var/log/localmessages
Mandrake does not have a /var/log/localmessages file but on venturing into the /var/log directory I saw a file called syslog. Opened it up and had a look for ip-down and lo and behold..... I was greeted with messages just prior to that of how my connection had been refused at various IP's, eventhough I had been given a dynamic IP address myself.
What shows there after "debug" enabled? After adding debug into the relevant file, if I click on Details to see why the connection failed the error report comes back and says it can't help me here.
No. Edit file /etc/ppp/options. You will find this text:
# Increase debugging level (same as -d). The debug output is written # to syslog LOG_LOCAL2. #debug
remove the comment mark (#) before the word 'debug'.
Oh it would be lovely to be running SuSe :| There seems to be so much more information available in the config files. Wishing 9.0 would hurry up, be released and get on its way to the RSA. Mandrake just lists the values ie lock usepeerdns debug #after I added it etc
Enough info?
Not yet, because the reason for not connecting is not seen.
It would seem from the syslog that as the smbd was denied access to a few IP's the pppd died with termination signal 15. I also, over the last couple of days, had to change my dial-in numbers to my ISP. After the change there is no more modem hangup, so I can only guess that the number I was dialling had some problems in authenticating me and therefore hanged up the modem connection. Who knew it would actually be my ISP's 'fault' that I couldn't connect? :)
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