Don't feel bad I've been banging my head on this for two weeks now.... Rob Landley wrote:
> Brief summary: > > In installed from the boot disk, booted to the linux partition, but > "pon" can't create a ppp connection to my ISP to install the rest via > FTP. > > My system: > > 486DX75, approx 800 meg IDE hard drive (western digital I think), local > bus, IDE CD-ROM (which OS/2 insists is a "Sony > CDU-55D,55E,76E,760E,77E"... hey, it works), an IDE (well, ATAPI) zip > drive, 3.5 drive A, 5.25 drive B, an 8 bit sound blaster from the dawn > of time, a local bus "does everything" type I/O controller that probably > has a garage door opener on it somewhere... > > The problem component seems to be my generic 28.8 internal modem using 8 > bits of a 16 bit ISA slot on COM3 using standard port/IRQ address. > (COM1 is built into that controller card, but disabled via jumper. OS/2 > detects and used this modem just fine, I'm using it from my recently > shrunk (guess why) OS/2 partition to send email.) > > The debian boot disks went down fine, I have a debian partition > installed on partition hd6 (OS/2's useless boot manager, OS/2 itself, > linux swap, and linux itself.) It boots from a floppy to get to it, I > can login as root and cd around to my heart's content. > > The "pon" script exits immediately of course, but "ps a" says it fired > off pppd which in turn fired off chat. After around 30 seconds, chat > exits, so does pppd, and I still don't have a connection for dconfig to > FTP the rest of the base system through. I copied all my ppp config > (user name, password, phone number) info from my OS/2 ppp dialer, where > it works, and entered it when prompted by install. Double-checked, it > is correct. (I even started over, reformatted and did all seven boot > disks again with the same result). I've tried both ATZ and the init > string I hacked together way back before I misplaced the modem manual: > "AT&FE1M0&C1&D2W2". Same result both times. As far as I can tell, it's > not even picking up the phone. > > Drawing on the fragments of unix I know from college (sunos 4) and a > little dabbling with AIX at IBM, I did the following, which may be a big > red herring for all I know: > > on the alt-f1 tty: > cp /dev/ttyS2 /dev/console > > on the alt-f2 tty: > cp /dev/console /dev/ttyS2 > > (If there's a dumb terminal program built into the OS, please let me > know...) > > On alt-F2 I can type in ATDT[ENTER] and get the modem to pick up the > phone, but only after about a fifteen second delay. It takes about the > same amount of time for ATH0[ENTER] to hang up the phone. (Way back in > the dark ages I used a 300 baud modem, and it was WAY faster than this > response time.) I sometimes (unpredictably) get my commands echoed back > to me on the alt-f1 console, and sometimes even a return code. The > return code is numeric, despite the fact the long init string (Which > sometimes gets echoed back) says to return "OK". I dunno what ATZ is > supposed to return. > > I've tried 115k and 57600 port speeds. (Well, in the ppp config file in > /usr/sbin/something_or_other. I don't know how to set it manually. I'm > installing this to learn, not because I already know it.) > > I've been banging my head against this for two days. I've read rather a > lot of Faq pages. I went through the bug reports for PPP (couldn't find > one for the serial package). Um... Help? (Should I go back and try > 1.3?) > > Rob Landley > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
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