jens wrote, > Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
> > huh? This is an 8 bit clean connection. so how to i test it myself to > > have something to show the telecommunications folks? Or could my modem > > be sending 7 bits? It's a compaq pcmia modem in an ibm thinkpad. > > any help would be appreciated. > Most likely the problem is simply that ppp hasn't started--the shell > is probably just > echoing back the LCP config requests. Try going through the chat >procedure by hand and see if you get PPP packets after you >ultimately login to the Linux box. oh :) I thought that the script started it at the other end :) OK, for the really dumb question: how do I start ppp on the other end on a debian box? it seems to be with pppd to start the daemon, but I'm having trouble figuring out the man & doc pages. I've figured out to insert the ppp & shlc modules on the host, but I'm not clear on what else to do. When I type pppd when logged in manually, I just get a bunch of nonsense characters. rick
