cannot establish dial up connection
Ok I had this problem with fedora 2 before and cleared it up (actually it cleared up on reboot; not this time). Having too much frustration at it and hearing the wonders of suse9.1 I finally got it.
fantasitic distro! 1- I have a Conexant modem (will configure later) and a real modem 2- configured serial modem ('query modem' reports alls well) Situation ; I get to the point where you see 'loggin on to network' and then it immediately drops the connection (timed out as davidphillips said) and redials again; forever 3-I did a 'ln -s /etc/resolv.conf /etc/ppp/resolv.conf 4-I have the resolv.conf cleared up (yes I know I haven't a connection yet) 5- looking at my /var/log/messages....phew that file is huge and I don't understand any of it, so I didn't post it.... If anyone knows where to look I'll post the relevant section. |
Diagnostic messages would help!
Try: cat /var/log/messages | grep pppd ...this should show you the ones relevant to what you're doing. If there's still too much, just grab the last, say, 20 lines of the file by doing: cat /var/log/messages |grep pppd | tail -20 ...then someone should be able to get an idea as to what's what. |
ok heres the log
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"Failed to open /dev/ttySL0: No such device" - that give me cause for concern.
This is what I think is happening: Your modem is plugged into the first serial port, ttyS0 right? So, you connect to the modem, dial the number, then it tries to make the ppp connection - that is, the actual network connection. ppp fails - it can't open ttySL0, it gives up. Conclusion: the device node ttySL0 is missing (I have one on my machine). It's quite likely that this only needs to be a symbolic link to another device, but may need a mknod - getting out of my depth here! Anybody? |
true; how come query modem goes throught fine then??????
OK I'm confused. |
Query modem goes through ttyS0, ppp is trying to use ttySL0. They have the same PHYSICAL port, but are different devices to the operating system.
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