On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This may or may not be a Linux problem, but, unfortunately, I have no other
> place to ask this question. From previous experience, when I've called BEZEQ
> or ISRASRV about any question or problem with my ADSL connection, the answer
> is always **LINUX is your problem - ADSL doesn't work on LINUX** or similar
> nonsense. In fact, I've been using ADSL on LINUX for about 8 months with no
> real problems, but it's impossible to convince these idiots. In fact, the one
> time I had a serious problem was when some moron at BEZEQ accidentally
> disconnected my ADSL line, but it took a whole day of phone calls to BEZEQ
> and ISRASRV to discover this.
it is not my intention to open an ISP flame war, but if your ISP is so
ignorant of linux, why don't you switch to a linux-friendly ISP? (i'm
not going to recommend one, just take a quick look at my mail headers).
> Let me start by saying that **as far as I know**, nothing has changed on my
> system (no new programs installed, no new hardware, etc). Since yesterday,
> when I try to connect, either PPP doesn't start, or if it does, it dies after
> a few minutes. I get no error message when I run my regular connect script. If
> it does start, I get no message when PPP stops. The lights o the ALCATEL modem
> all look normal.
ppp doesn't start points to a configuration problem on your machine.
there is no such things as no error messages! are you sure you are
giving ppp the debug command line option? if yes, compile it again and
make sure you have debugging enabled.
> I wish I could provide more information, but as I said, there's no error
> message or anything else **unusual**. I can even start a download, or go to a
> web page, and for no apparent reason, the browser stops getting data. When that
> happens, I try PING and discover that I'm no longer on-line.
run pppd with the debug option. we are not mind readers (though we
sometimes try).
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mulix
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linux/reboot.h: #define LINUX_REBOOT_MAGIC1 0xfee1dead
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