Hi I'm used to configuring SuSE machines to work with ISDN and ADSL for the internet. But, when it comes to 56K modems and Wvdial I haven't got much of an idea what to do. A friend of mine is using an SuSE 7.2 machine that I installed for him. He wanted to run Wvdial on it which works fine after I installed and configured it. Now he's made up his mind that he wants it to dial out whenever he opens a web browser or wants to send or receive mail. Having looked at the SuSE database and the man pages I understand that I need to use wvdial.dod. So, that means that I change the settings in /etc/rc.config to start dial on demand at boot time. I did that and the machine didn't connect. So, had a look at the SuSE support database once again. It revealed a page at...... http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/hoe_wv_dod_start.html Having made sure that the script wasn't anywhere on the machine I downloaded this one and put it under /etc/init.d/wvdial.dod and linked it with "/etc/init.d/wvdial.dod /sbin/wvdial.dod" just as the page above tells me to. I didn't do the part about ... ln -s /sbin/init.d/wvdial.dod /sbin/init.d/rc2.d/S20wvdial.dod ........etc because the page I mention above is for SuSE 6.xx and I'm using SuSE 7.2 and things have changed in the 7.xx release from the 6.xx release. As I say, dial on demand isn't working and in spite of looking under /var/log/messages I can't find any error messages.. The machine connects with Wvdial manually without problems. Does anyone out there have any ideas what it is that I might be looking for here ? Is it the DOD script that isn't configured properly ? Or is it a general fault that occurred with the SuSE 7.2 release of Wvdial ? I've also looked in PAP and CHAP secrets under /etc/ppp and nothing doing in there either. Thank you -- Richard www.sheflug.co.uk
Richard Ibbotson wrote:
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I'm used to configuring SuSE machines to work with ISDN and ADSL for the internet. But, when it comes to 56K modems and Wvdial I haven't got much of an idea what to do.
A friend of mine is using an SuSE 7.2 machine that I installed for him. He wanted to run Wvdial on it which works fine after I installed and configured it. Now he's made up his mind that he wants it to dial out whenever he opens a web browser or wants to send or receive mail.
Having looked at the SuSE database and the man pages I understand that I need to use wvdial.dod. So, that means that I change the settings in /etc/rc.config to start dial on demand at boot time. I did that and the machine didn't connect. So, had a look at the SuSE support database once again. It revealed a page at......
http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/hoe_wv_dod_start.html
Having made sure that the script wasn't anywhere on the machine I downloaded this one and put it under /etc/init.d/wvdial.dod and linked it with "/etc/init.d/wvdial.dod /sbin/wvdial.dod" just as the page above tells me to. I didn't do the part about ...
ln -s /sbin/init.d/wvdial.dod /sbin/init.d/rc2.d/S20wvdial.dod ........etc
because the page I mention above is for SuSE 6.xx and I'm using SuSE 7.2 and things have changed in the 7.xx release from the 6.xx release.
As I say, dial on demand isn't working and in spite of looking under /var/log/messages I can't find any error messages.. The machine connects with Wvdial manually without problems.
Does anyone out there have any ideas what it is that I might be looking for here ? Is it the DOD script that isn't configured properly ? Or is it a general fault that occurred with the SuSE 7.2 release of Wvdial ? I've also looked in PAP and CHAP secrets under /etc/ppp and nothing doing in there either.
I used it under 6.4 It needs to run initially at boot (or it at least needs to be started, which loads pppd with some dummy IP addresses it uses a 'nameholders'.) I don't use it anymore (got cable now), but if you have specific questions I will try to help. -- Joe & Sesil Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871
Hi
I used it under 6.4 It needs to run initially at boot (or it at least needs to be started, which loads pppd with some dummy IP addresses it uses a 'nameholders'.) I don't use it anymore (got cable now), but if you have specific questions I will try to help.
Okay. I'll try a bit harder to get some error messages from it and get back to you. Thank you -- Richard
Hi Further to my wvdial problem that I couldn't sort out...
I used it under 6.4 It needs to run initially at boot (or it at least needs to be started, which loads pppd with some dummy IP addresses it uses a 'nameholders'.) I don't use it anymore (got cable now), but if you have specific questions I will try to help.
As things are just now this is what is happening.... After doing 'ln -s /etc/init.d/wvdial.dod /etc/wvdial.dod' on the SuSE 7.2 dialup box in question I have then opened up the part of YaST1 that changes /etc/rc.config amd told the machine to start wvdial.dod on bootup. On bootup it says .... starting pppd 192.xxx.x.100: 194.xxx.xxx.1 /dev/modem Analog modem 5600 modem crtscts defaultroute -detach user xxxxxx ipcp-accept-local ipcp-accept-remote call wvdial demand idle 180connect "/usr/bun/wvdial --chat" PID=17943 ls: /var/run/ppp? .pid: No such file or directory and it doesn't connect when I open a web browser on another machine. I think I've gotten myself thoroughly confused here and some helpful pointers would do a lot for me just now. Had a look under /var/log/messages and it says... pppd[17943]: unrecognised option 'Analog'. I take this to be a reference to /etc/wvdial.conf. Or, maybe not ? Thank you -- Richard
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