daved declared, > Quoting hawk (hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu):
> > Unfortunately, pppconfig doesn't seem to like me. After changing an > > irq, it now finds my modem. It takes all the information from me that > > it thinks it should need, and then tells me that it failed to make a > > connection. Judging by a brief flash on the screen (why are error > > messages *still* going to the screen where they're not visible or > > recordable after all these years?), it may be using the provider script > > rather than the psu script I told it to use. I've tried editing > > provider, but with the same results. > > > > Checking /var/log/syslog, it appears that the message is that the tty > > is looping back to itself. (horrible idea that just hit me: does this > > mean that this old modem for which I have no documetnation is set to > > half-duplex?? it's a gateway from a 486 with a set of 8 dip switches . > > . .) > Is that *all* the log says? Does the modem dial? Is there a response > from the other end? pretty close. There's no dial tone. In fact, it's so fast to fail that it can't have talked to the modem. > Until your modem makes a connection, it will normally be reflecting > back to you everything you send to it. Here's a fragment: > Oct 7 23:00:49 home chat[1879]: send (ATZ^M) <-------sent I don't think it gets this far. I'll bring a disk in in the morning. There is also a reference (sometimes) to a pid that has locked ppp, but there is never a corresponding entry in /var/lock > You might try posting the log (sanitised like the above). I'll post it tomorrow. hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] These opinions will not be those of Penn State until it pays my retainer.
