Thanks for all your help so far. Back from the holidays, I thought I
would try again.
At your advice, I have done the following things:
I have checked to see if my kernel supported ppp. As it turns out,
it didn't. But I have fixed that and added ppp support through a
module.
I have also set kdebug to 7 in my /etc/ppp/options file. However, I
have seen no more verbose debugging than simply that added by the
debug option.
I have also tried minicom and to execute pppd after quitting minicom
wit the command you suggested:
pppd -d -detach /dev/ttyS0 38400 & . Unfortunanely, I haven't found
a pleasant way of exiting minicom outside of kill it as a process. I
can't quit minicom inside of it because the meta key doesn't work. I
will be posting a question about this problem to the powerpc list.
So far my debugging output looks like this:
Dec 28 22:14:33 localhost pppd[435]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0
Dec 28 22:14:34 localhost chat[436]: timeout set to 30 seconds
Dec 28 22:14:34 localhost chat[436]: abort on (BUSY)
Dec 28 22:14:34 localhost chat[436]: abort on (NO CARRIER)
Dec 28 22:14:34 localhost chat[436]: abort on (NO ANSWER)
Dec 28 22:14:34 localhost chat[436]: abort on (NO DIALTONE)
Dec 28 22:14:34 localhost chat[436]: abort on (RING)
Dec 28 22:14:34 localhost chat[436]: abort on (% User/password invalid)
Dec 28 22:14:34 localhost chat[436]: send (ATZ^M)
Dec 28 22:14:34 localhost chat[436]: expect (OK)
Dec 28 22:14:34 localhost chat[436]: ATZ^M^M
Dec 28 22:14:34 localhost chat[436]: OK
Dec 28 22:14:34 localhost chat[436]: -- got it
Dec 28 22:14:34 localhost chat[436]: send (ATH0^M)
Dec 28 22:14:34 localhost chat[436]: expect (OK)
Dec 28 22:14:34 localhost chat[436]: ^M
Dec 28 22:14:34 localhost chat[436]: ATH0^M^M
Dec 28 22:14:34 localhost chat[436]: OK
Dec 28 22:14:34 localhost chat[436]: -- got it
Dec 28 22:14:34 localhost chat[436]: send (AT &F1 L W2 Q0 V1 E1 &D2
&C1 S0=0 +MS=56^M)
Dec 28 22:14:35 localhost chat[436]: expect (OK)
Dec 28 22:14:35 localhost chat[436]: ^M
Dec 28 22:14:35 localhost chat[436]: AT &F1 L W2 Q0 V1 E1 &D2 &C1
S0=0 +MS=56^M^M
Dec 28 22:14:35 localhost chat[436]: OK
Dec 28 22:14:35 localhost chat[436]: -- got it
Dec 28 22:14:35 localhost chat[436]: send (ATDT5551000^M)
Dec 28 22:14:35 localhost chat[436]: expect (CONNECT 40000)
Dec 28 22:14:35 localhost chat[436]: ^M
Dec 28 22:15:03 localhost chat[436]: ATDT7621000^M^M
Dec 28 22:15:03 localhost chat[436]: CONNECT 40000
Dec 28 22:15:03 localhost chat[436]: -- got it
Dec 28 22:15:03 localhost chat[436]: send (^M)
Dec 28 22:15:03 localhost chat[436]: expect (User Access Verification)
Dec 28 22:15:03 localhost chat[436]: ^M
Dec 28 22:15:33 localhost chat[436]: alarm
Dec 28 22:15:33 localhost chat[436]: send (^M)
Dec 28 22:15:33 localhost chat[436]: expect (User Access Verification)
Dec 28 22:15:33 localhost chat[436]: ^M
Dec 28 22:15:33 localhost chat[436]: ^M
Dec 28 22:15:33 localhost chat[436]: User Access Verification
Dec 28 22:15:33 localhost chat[436]: -- got it
Dec 28 22:15:33 localhost chat[436]: send (^M)
Dec 28 22:15:33 localhost chat[436]: expect (sername:)
Dec 28 22:15:33 localhost chat[436]: ^M
Dec 28 22:15:33 localhost chat[436]: ^M
Dec 28 22:15:33 localhost chat[436]: Username:
Dec 28 22:15:33 localhost chat[436]: -- got it
Dec 28 22:15:33 localhost chat[436]: send (wcrowshaw^M)
Dec 28 22:15:33 localhost chat[436]: expect (assword:)
Dec 28 22:15:33 localhost chat[436]: ^M
Dec 28 22:15:33 localhost chat[436]: Username: wcrowshaw^M
Dec 28 22:15:33 localhost chat[436]: Password:
Dec 28 22:15:33 localhost chat[436]: -- got it
Dec 28 22:15:33 localhost chat[436]: send (MYPASSWORD^M)
Dec 28 22:15:33 localhost chat[436]: expect (>)
Dec 28 22:15:34 localhost chat[436]: ^M
Dec 28 22:15:34 localhost chat[436]: as14>
Dec 28 22:15:34 localhost chat[436]: -- got it
Dec 28 22:15:34 localhost chat[436]: send (ppp^M)
Dec 28 22:15:34 localhost chat[436]: expect (~)
Dec 28 22:15:34 localhost chat[436]: ppp^M
Dec 28 22:15:34 localhost chat[436]: Entering PPP mode.^M
Dec 28 22:15:34 localhost chat[436]: Async interface address is
unnumbered (Ethernet0)^M
Dec 28 22:15:34 localhost chat[436]: Your IP address is
129.49.78.148. MTU is 1500 bytes^M
Dec 28 22:15:34 localhost chat[436]: Header compression will match
your system.^M
Dec 28 22:15:34 localhost chat[436]: ^M
Dec 28 22:15:36 localhost chat[436]: ~
Dec 28 22:15:36 localhost chat[436]: -- got it
Dec 28 22:15:36 localhost chat[436]: send (^M)
Dec 28 22:15:36 localhost pppd[435]: Serial connection established.
Dec 28 22:15:36 localhost pppd[435]: Using interface ppp0
Dec 28 22:15:36 localhost pppd[435]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0
Dec 28 22:15:37 localhost pppd[435]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1
<asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0xf6fcf66f> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Dec 28 22:15:37 localhost pppd[435]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
Dec 28 22:15:37 localhost pppd[435]: Modem hangup
Dec 28 22:15:37 localhost pppd[435]: Connection terminated.
Dec 28 22:15:38 localhost pppd[435]: Exit.
The current thing about the output that is perplexing me is the line:
Dec 28 22:15:34 localhost chat[436]: Async interface address is
unnumbered (Ethernet0)^M
I find the reference to "unnumbered" and "Ethernet0." First,
unnumbered seems to me to be an error. Second, I am also wondering
about this reference to Ethernet0. As far as I have things set up,
my machine is not connected to an ethernet. When I first installed
debian and pulled up the routing tables, I have eth0 as the only
interface listed. lo was absent (I found out later this is no
accident). I also found a reference to the loopback interface, lo,
and eth0 in the interfaces file of /etc/networks/. I pursue the
eth0 interface then because when I would attempt a ppp connect, my
debugging informoation would always tell me that it was "Using
interface eth0" and "Connect: eth0 <--> /dev/ttyS0." I knew this was
wrong and that the interface should be "ppp0" as debugging says it is
currently. But now, it seems that a reference to the ethernet is
back. I wonder why? Any thoughts?
Any way, you also mentioneda ppp mailing list that I should
subscribe to. Do you know where I could find that list.
Thanks for all your help.
--
W. Crowshaw
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