Help!!! Can't connect to my ISP using pon

[Michelle Coelho]

First of all I'd like to thank all of you for responding to my problem..Here I am giving you all the pertinent data to try and fix my problem.   The problem? Well, I can't connect to my ISP, though my modem is dialing out..I can here it do so, and I can hear the screeching sound.   The answers I gave to pppconfig: primary nameserver: 134.68.1.9 secondary nameserver: 134.68.140.1 provider name: provider (the default since I have just one ISP) Password: ***** username: mcoelho port modem is on: /dev/ttyS0 defaultroute enabled noipdefault modem port speed : 115200 modem initialization string: ATZ (I've let it choose its default settings as I don't know what the initialization string is for my modem: 56k Cardinal connecta external) number to dial : 2785619 ATDT tone authentication method : PAP (My friends who have Win-operating systems are able to connect easily, so I guess my university provides PAP)   I ran pon 4 times. The first time plog gave me this: chat: expect (CONNECT) chat: ^M chat: ATDT2785619^M chat:CONNECT chat:--got it chat:send (\d) pppd: Serial Connection Established pppd:Using interface ppp0 pppd:Connect ppp0<-->/dev/ttyS0 pppd: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> magic 0xffff024f> <pcomp><acomp>] last message repeated 9 times pppd: Hangup (SIGHUP) pppd: Modem hangup pppd: Connection terminated pppd: Exit   The 2nd, 3rd and 4th times, as well as all other times in the past, I got this: chat: expect (CONNECT) chat: ^M chat: ATDT2785619^M chat:CONNECT chat:--got it chat:send (\d) pppd: Serial Connection Established pppd:Using interface ppp0 pppd:Connect ppp0<-->/dev/ttyS0 pppd: [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> magic 0xffff024f> <pcomp><acomp>] last message repeated 9 times pppd: LCP: Timeout Sending Config_Requests pppd: Connection termianted pppd: Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean: pppd: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 1 pppd: Hangup (SIGHUP) pppd: Exit   I did a "ping 134.68.140.1", but it gave me "unknown host 134.68.140.1". So I wasn't connected.   Now here are the contents of some pertinent files: /etc/chatscripts/provider ABORT BUSY ABORT "NO CARRIER" ABORT VOICE    ABORT "NO DIALTONE" ABORT "NO ANSWER' ""ATZ OK ATDT2785619 CONNECT \d\c   /etc/ppp/peers/provider #This file was generated by pppconfig. You can edit the following lines but don't delete any or change the comments else you'll confuse pppconfig   noauth                                                                        #pppconfig_noauth connect "usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/provider"      #pppconfig_connect debug                                                                         #pppconfig_debug /dev/ttyS0                                                                   #pppconfig_ dev 115200                                                                       #pppconfig_speed defaultroute                                                                 #pppconfig_route noipdefault                                                                   #pppconfig_ipdefault user mcoelho                                                               #pppconfig_user   #End of pppconfig controlled lines. You can add lines below here wothout confusing pppconfig   In the file /etc/ppp/peers/provider.old (whose contents are same as above except for pppconfig_dev and pppconfig_speed which is 384000), I changed '/dev/modem' to '/dev/ttyS0'.   /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 134.68.1.9 nameserver 134.68.140.1   /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1   pussycat   localhost   /etc/hostname pussycat   /etc/host.conf Order hosts, bind multi on   I think you'd be interested in knowing that I got the following messages at boot time: Configuring serial ports....failed.... Trying to load serial module manually Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled. tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq=4) is a 16450 tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq=3) is a 16450 Success...retrying configuration..done /dev/ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq=4) is a 16450 /dev/ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq=3) is a 16450     I made a symbolic link called '/dev/modem' to '/dev/ttyS0'. On doing a setserial -a /dev/ttyS0, I got: /dev/ttyS0, line 0, UART: 16450, Port 0x3f8, IRQ: 4, Baud_base:115200, close_delay:50, divisor :0 closing_wait:3000, closing_wait2 :infinite Flags:spd_normal skip_test session_lockout Then, I did a setserial /dev/ttyS0 spd_hi, but the problem persists. In pppconfig, I changed the speed to 38400, yet the problem remained so I it changed back to 115200. Do you reckon the problem to be due to the fact that I've a 16450 UART, though I seriously don't think so.... I have a 33.6 internal modem (not connected, of course)..should I be using that instead? I've racked my head ..(and some of yours) to fix the problem..I'm so fed up..I hope someone out there can figure out a solution.. Thanks..