Re: configuring ppp and lan

2006-11-30 Thread richard
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 10:51:16PM -0500, Marty wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > >No land line so I have acquired a usb gsm (gprs) modem. > > Have you consulted any of the Debian networking Howtos? [...] > > You need the ethernet bridging driver (and other related drivers) installed > in

Re: configuring ppp and lan

2006-11-28 Thread richard
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 12:19:15AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> with both up I get >> >> DestinationGatewayGenmask Flags MSS Windo irtt >> Iface >> joiner.mulinoc * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 00 ppp0 >> 192.168.133.0 * 255.255.255.0

Re: configuring ppp and lan

2006-11-28 Thread Bill Marcum
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 12:19:15AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > with both up I get > > DestinationGatewayGenmask Flags MSS Windo irtt > Iface > joiner.mulinoc * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 00 ppp0 > 192.168.133.0 * 255.255.255.0 U

Re: configuring ppp and lan

2006-11-28 Thread Wayne Topa
Hugo Vanwoerkom([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Marty wrote: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>I'm finally beginning to have some internet here in the Appennine alps. > >>No land line so I have acquired a usb gsm modem. (To be truthful, I > >>still don't know if it will work at the hou

Re: configuring ppp and lan

2006-11-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Marty wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm finally beginning to have some internet here in the Appennine alps. No land line so I have acquired a usb gsm modem. (To be truthful, I still don't know if it will work at the house which also has no mobile signal, but I have a directional antenna with a

Re: configuring ppp and lan

2006-11-28 Thread richard
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 10:51:16PM -0500, Marty wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I'm finally beginning to have some internet here in the Appennine alps. > >No land line so I have acquired a usb gsm modem. [...] > > cannot configure the box with the modem so that both the > >LAN and the PPP wor

Re: configuring ppp and lan

2006-11-27 Thread Marty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm finally beginning to have some internet here in the Appennine alps. No land line so I have acquired a usb gsm modem. (To be truthful, I still don't know if it will work at the house which also has no mobile signal, but I have a directional antenna with a 10dB gain tha

configuring ppp and lan

2006-11-27 Thread richard
I'm finally beginning to have some internet here in the Appennine alps. No land line so I have acquired a usb gsm modem. (To be truthful, I still don't know if it will work at the house which also has no mobile signal, but I have a directional antenna with a 10dB gain that may fix that...) To the

Re: still configuring PPP :-(

1999-07-02 Thread David Wright
Quoting Andreas Persenius ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Sorry; I deleted the original posting... > Quoting Isabelle Poueriet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hello everyone. I'm sorry to post this again, but I'm having new problem > > now. > > > > I made some changes to those files I sent before and now when I

Re: still configuring PPP :-(

1999-07-02 Thread Andreas Persenius
Quoting Isabelle Poueriet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello everyone. I'm sorry to post this again, but I'm having new problem > now. > > I made some changes to those files I sent before and now when I type pppd > at the command prompt I get some garbage text on my screen, and after a > little while(3

Re: still configuring PPP :-(

1999-06-29 Thread Michael Merten
On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 05:35:09AM -0400, Isabelle Poueriet wrote: > Hello and thanks a million to those who have responded to my request for > taking some of your precious time to help me out. > > I downloaded wvdial and minicom like some of you suggested and wvdial > cannot find my modem. I sent

Re: still configuring PPP :-(

1999-06-29 Thread Isabelle Poueriet
Thanks Jon, On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > Have you tried calling your modem by /dev/ttyS0 /dev/ttyS1 /dev/ttyS3? > Yeap. I also installed wvdial and it searches for the modem in ttyS0 and ttyS1 but not in ttyS2, which where it is. This was tonight. On Friday it did look in

Re: still configuring PPP :-(

1999-06-27 Thread Michael Talbot-Wilson
And I think that sharing of IRQs by serial ports is a kernel config option. It may be that your particular kernel can't do it.

Re: still configuring PPP :-(

1999-06-27 Thread Michael Talbot-Wilson
> Hello and thanks a million to those who have responded to my request for > taking some of your precious time to help me out. > > I downloaded wvdial and minicom like some of you suggested and wvdial > cannot find my modem. I sent a message to them like they suggested because > I am 100% sure tha

Re: still configuring PPP :-(

1999-06-26 Thread John Hasler
Isabelle Poueriet writes: > This is really confusing. I thought the garbage test I was receiving when > I typed pppd was a sign that the modem sent a signal. That was coming from pppd itself. Type 'setserial -a /dev/ttyS2' and report the results. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Da

Re: still configuring PPP :-(

1999-06-26 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Have you tried calling your modem by /dev/ttyS0 /dev/ttyS1 /dev/ttyS3? Hint: on boot-up you will see some serial port info like: /dev/ttyS[0-4] -Jon -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 39679408

Re: still configuring PPP :-(

1999-06-26 Thread Isabelle Poueriet
Hello and thanks a million to those who have responded to my request for taking some of your precious time to help me out. I downloaded wvdial and minicom like some of you suggested and wvdial cannot find my modem. I sent a message to them like they suggested because I am 100% sure that my modem i

Re: still configuring PPP :-(

1999-06-25 Thread John Hasler
Isabelle Poueriet writes: > I only have the base system installed. Then you have pppconfig. > ...I get some garbage text on my screen,... That is pppd sending LCP packets to the console. This what it will do when you start it without telling it what serial port to use. The only place you have

Re: still configuring PPP :-(

1999-06-25 Thread David Teague
Hi Isabelle I had this error. I did not have the last line of my negotiation right. You will need to know what your isp expects to be told to start the negotiation to set up a ppp connection. If the ISP isn't sent the signal to commence negotiating, your ppp thinks the ISP isn't 8 bit clean, and

still configuring PPP :-(

1999-06-25 Thread Isabelle Poueriet
Hello everyone. I'm sorry to post this again, but I'm having new problem now. I made some changes to those files I sent before and now when I type pppd at the command prompt I get some garbage text on my screen, and after a little while(30 seconds or so) I get the prompt back. I tailed d my /v

Re: Configuring ppp

1999-06-24 Thread Isabelle Poueriet
I'm sorry. Yes I am running pppd. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ \_ Isabelle Poueriet \_ \_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \_ \_ http://www.bway.net \_ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Q. How many Microsoft Engineers does it take to screw in a light bulb? A. None. They declare "darkness", the standard. On 24 Jun

Re: Configuring ppp

1999-06-24 Thread John Hasler
Isabelle Poueriet writes: > "" ATZ\R ^^^ chat is case sensitive: '\R' does not mean the same thing as '\r'. Besides, you don't need a '\r' here anyway. > nameserer IP address Misspelling 'nameserver' won't keep you from connecting, but it will make it hard to surf the net. Al

Re: Configuring ppp

1999-06-24 Thread John Hasler
Marc Mongeon writes: > My experience has been that modems usually ship with a factory default of > 57600. In my experience all modems autodetect the speed of the pc-modem link. > it's pointless, considering you'll never get that kind of end-to-end > throughput anyway. 56k modems often achieve ef

Re: Configuring ppp

1999-06-24 Thread Marc Mongeon
Isabelle: For modem speed, use the speed that the modem uses to talk to the computer, not the speed it uses to talk to another modem. My understanding is that for old modems, this was the same thing, but with new ones (anything since 14.4Kbps became standard, probably), the PC-modem speeds remains

Configuring ppp

1999-06-24 Thread Isabelle Poueriet
Thanks to all who have responded to my question. I made more attempts with no success. Here is more info about my configuration: This is not a permissions problem. I'm running all these commands as root. First I create the following files: /etc/ppp/options: debug /dev/ttyS2#my modem is i

Re: Configuring PPP

1999-06-23 Thread John Hasler
Isabelle Poueriet writes: > I then type: > pon > plog > I get the error: > pppd:Connection failed > pppd:Exit We need more information. When you ran pppconfig did you give the connection a name other than the default of 'provider'? If so, you must type 'pon isp1' if you gave the connectio

Re: Configuring PPP

1999-06-23 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, pon issued by itself will execute the connection "provider". so: pon pon provider do the same thing. Is this a permissions problem? pppd may only be run by root or a member of the group dip: -rwsr-xr-- 1 root dip105884 Jun 18 1998 /usr/sbin/pppd Does your ppp log have any m

Re: Configuring PPP

1999-06-23 Thread Tim Nicholas
ge- > From: Isabelle Poueriet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Wednesday, 23 June 1999 15:19 > Subject: Configuring PPP > > > >Hello List. > > > >Please excuseme if this questions has popped up recently. I'm new to

Re: Configuring PPP

1999-06-23 Thread Michael Fox
) -Original Message- From: Isabelle Poueriet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wednesday, 23 June 1999 15:19 Subject: Configuring PPP >Hello List. > >Please excuseme if this questions has popped up recently. I'm new to the >list. > >I'm

Configuring PPP

1999-06-23 Thread Isabelle Poueriet
Hello List. Please excuseme if this questions has popped up recently. I'm new to the list. I'm trying to configure PPP for Debian 2.1. My base system has been installed. I run pppconfig as root and answer the questions there and then make sure that the files specified in the PPP section 7.25