sandy <sandyseeds@iname.com> wrote:

Rick Knebel wrote:

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Hi,

I am giving suse 5.3 a try.

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I am trying to use kppp and everytime i connect it will not get past my ISP saying "no carrier". [...]

I cannot get suse's pppconfig to work either.

andy <sandyseeds@iname.com> wrote:

And now, imo, it's time to try WvDial. Go to: <A HREF="http://www.worldvisions.ca/wvdial/"><A HREF="http://www.worldvisions.ca/wvdial/</A">http://www.worldvisions.ca/wvdial/</A</A>> and DL the source (SRC) code file. Follow the instructions in Install, and you'll be all set.

WvDial virtually automates your entire ppp-dialup process from identifying the modem to setting an optimized init string. All you need to do is enter 3 pieces of information: you ISP's phone number; your username; and password.

And another option is to try X-ISP, which automates dialup quite nice also. This is a GUI app using XFORMS. Head to <A HREF="http://users.hol.gr/~dbouras/"><A HREF="http://users.hol.gr/~dbouras/</A">http://users.hol.gr/~dbouras/</A</A>> & download the latest, edit the makefile as needed. (I'll be happy to send mine.), make and make install. type XISP as su root and enter your ISP's info. Very nice. Best Regards -Dee W.D.McKinney (Dee) deem@wdm.com Faith is acting on your passions & beliefs. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

Rick Knebel wrote:

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Rick Knebel wrote:

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Hi,

I am giving suse 5.3 a try. I have used redhat, caldera, and debian and I have never had as much of a hard time setting up ppp as i am having with suse.

I am trying to use kppp and everytime i connect it will not get past my ISP saying "no carrier".

Go into your /etc/ppp directory and remove the word "lock" from the options file.

Did it already. No Luck

I had a similari problem for a awhile. It was a result of my modem being defined

incorrectly. Did you also check your resolv.conf file? Richard N. Hinton

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Joe Ryan <irisinc@alaska.net> wrote:

Rick;

Go back to your Redhat manual; at least it explains what it is your trying to accomplish; unlike suse.

Before knocking our friends at SuSE,(or Red Hat), this is a German distribution first. Excellent engineering and work being done in this version and plenty of help. wvdial and XISP are enough for the US users, and non-European users. The LDP HOWTO for PPP is at <A HREF="http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO.html"><A HREF="http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO.html</A">http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO.html</A</A>> and is good place to get started, much better than any manual. Best Regards -Dee - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

Iiwish it was as easy as you say.... I've been able to get kpp working (with some trouble) and wvdial (with somewhat less trouble) and for the moment, both seem to be working 100% . But there is just no way I can get chat to talk to my modem.... I've just spent an entire day fiddling around, reading the howto's and the SDB. But whatever I try, when I send "ATZ" to my modem, BANG, nothing happens... On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, you wrote:

Why do so many people have such a problem with suseppp? OK, its not exactly plug and play owing to the differences between ISPs, but it's easy enough to find out what you need to change in the chat script by dialling in manually with a modem program like minicom. That's how I did it.

Here's a useful tip for those who are having problems; the default chat script isn't very informative about progress during connection and it's not very readable. As an alternative, you can adapt the shell script in /usr/lib/diald/connect to your ISP's login protocols quite easily as it is quite transparent about how it goes about making a conection.

Rename the customised shell script to /etc/suseppp/scripts/generic.connect, then replace the pppd invocation in ppp-up with the following:

/usr/sbin/pppd \ connect "/etc/suseppp/scripts/$1.connect < /dev/modem > /dev/modem" \ file /etc/suseppp/$1.options

And that's all; just run /etc/suseppp/scripts/ppp-up to bring up the line.

Ralph

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