I have Debian slink (2.1) installed on my machine with no problems related to the Internet connection. The other day I got the unstable potato release and tried to install it onto another partition of my hard drive. Okay, the base system installation succeed. On the other hand, I wasn't able to make it connected to the ISP.
I suppose there is something wrong with the routing table. Before connecting, I typed the command 'netstat -nr' at the prompt: # netstat -nr Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface I realised none line was shown in the table. Using the older release I usually got something like: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo Besides that from the 'pppd' command I got the following message: #pppd The remote system is required to authenticate itself but I couln't find any secret (password) wich would let it use an IP address. Afterwards I decided finally trying to connecting the modem using the 'pon' command. It took about 30 seconds to the connection finished suddenly. The output from /var/log /messages file was: Nov 17 21:28:54 debian pppd[137]: pppd 2.3.10 started by root, uid 0 Nov 17 21:28:55 debian chat[138]: abort on (BUSY) Nov 17 21:28:55 debian chat[138]: abort on (NO CARRIER) Nov 17 21:28:55 debian chat[138]: abort on (VOICE) Nov 17 21:28:55 debian chat[138]: abort on (NO DIALTONE) Nov 17 21:28:55 debian chat[138]: abort on (NO DIAL TONE) Nov 17 21:28:55 debian chat[138]: abort on (NO ANSWER) Nov 17 21:28:55 debian chat[138]: send (ATZ^M) Nov 17 21:28:55 debian chat[138]: expect (OK) Nov 17 21:28:55 debian chat[138]: ATZ^M^M Nov 17 21:28:55 debian chat[138]: OK Nov 17 21:28:55 debian chat[138]: -- got it Nov 17 21:28:55 debian chat[138]: send (ATDT58742000^M) Nov 17 21:28:55 debian chat[138]: expect (CONNECT) Nov 17 21:28:55 debian chat[138]: ^M Nov 17 21:29:13 debian chat[138]: ATDT58742000^M^M Nov 17 21:29:13 debian chat[138]: CONNECT Nov 17 21:29:13 debian chat[138]: -- got it Nov 17 21:29:13 debian chat[138]: send (\d) Nov 17 21:29:14 debian pppd[137]: Serial connection established. Nov 17 21:29:14 debian pppd[137]: Using interface ppp0 Nov 17 21:29:14 debian pppd[137]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1 Nov 17 21:29:46 debian pppd[137]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests Nov 17 21:29:46 debian pppd[137]: Connection terminated. Nov 17 21:29:46 debian pppd[137]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean: Nov 17 21:29:46 debian pppd[137]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0 Nov 17 21:29:47 debian pppd[137]: Exit. What do these lines mean? How can they be corrected? Did someone experience the same difficulties on potato installation? Any help will be appreciated. Thanks, Rickie
