Re: [PLUG] RedHat Linux 6.1 ISP connection

[Greg Lopp <lopp@earthlink.net>]

Bill Jonas wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Sijian Zhou wrote:
>
> >This time, it got better:
> >I can dial out to my ISP modem number. I can hear the
> >modem noise. But the connection seems taking forever
> >and never confirmed. During the dial, my mouse is
> >disabled and when I disconnected the dial, the mouse
> >worked again.
>
> It sounds like it there may be some kind of hardware conflict.
>
> >Also, I have to use 'default modem'
> >selection, not '/dev/ttyS2' to dial.
>
> This could possibly be a quirk of the software you're using to
> dial.  Try an 'ls -d /dev/modem' to find out what device it's linked to.
>
> >The start string:
> >ATZ
> >The dial string:
> >ATDT14847914567
>
> You might try looking around in your modem's documentation (if you still
> have it) for a good inititalization ("start") string.  If you don't have
> it, I noticed at bestdata.com that they have a downloadable files
> section (in the tech support area); you might be able to find something
> there.

Dustin Sallings maintains a contributed init string database at
http://www.spy.net/~dustin/modem/   For the Best Data 2834F :
AT&F&C1&D2S11=60L3

>
>
> >I think the long dialing problem probably related to
> >handshaking. But I don't know what should I add
> >besides username/password.
> >
> >Any idea?
>
> Our own Chris Fearnley has a page up at
> http://www.netaxs.com/~cjf/linux.html; this is about connecting to
> Netaxs, and it's for using command-line tools, but you may be able to
> use the information there to find some more clues as to what's going on
> and why.

Cool.  Looks like adding debug and kdebug 3 to /etc/ppp/options might get
that handshaking process dumped to /var/log/messages.  I also remember
problems with my asyncmap setting.

>  In particular, wvdial is a decent piece of software that uses
> heuristics to determine what The Right Thing To Do is.
>
> Wait a second, that might be part of the problem.  Because it attempts
> to make 'educated guesses' about it should do when confronted with
> something it thinks looks like a prompt, it's not always 100%
> accurate.  (I speak from experience.)

Hear hear

>  If RH's graphical tool is a
> front-end to this, that could be part of the problem.  Does anybody
> know?

I each front-end will have a different set of "educated guesses"  Some will
work, some wont.


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