Hi everyone!

I need some help. I've tried everything I know to do to get either KPPP or wvdial to work with my earthlink dial-up. It will dial in an connect, but when it starts pppd, it dies.

It's like it's waiting for something and not getting something, so it times out. I know it's pap authentication. I've set it for that, and I've tried every option that I can think of, and dialling out as root, so permissions wouldnt' be a problem. I also created a resolv.conf file for it.

Any earthlink folks know what I need to do? I'm using ubuntu.

Thanks so much!

Dan

I use pppconfig in Ubuntu with Earthlink. I couldn't get Modem Connection to work in Network Settings.

Sudo pppconfig and follow the prompts. Leave "provider" as the connection name,then to connect you type "pon" in the terminal. "poff" disconnects.

I tried it. Here's what it does:

Sent LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0><magic 0x7bcfb68d><pcomp><accomp>

Then it says something about repeat 9 times

LCP: timeout sending config-requests
connection terminated

Thoughts?

What kind of modem are you using?

It's a U.S. Robotics Modem Blaster 56k pci with Broadxant (conexant) chipset; I dl'd the HCF drivers for it from Linuxant (the chipset IS supported by them, I checked).

Modem is installed as /dev/ttySHCF0, symlinked to /dev/modem.

All forms of the dialing programs I've tried (pon, kppp, wvdial, gnome-ppp) start the modem dialing, so the modem is alive. Are you thinking that it not being able to finish communicating is a function of the drivers/modem, or is it configuration? I just don't know. Up through SuSE 9.0 I never had to delve into it, but with 2.6 kernel nowadays, and ubuntu/mepis, etc., I'm just not sure what's going on.

If it's a driver issue, I'll maybe try to get a modem I know will work (it's another 30 bucks, though, so my wife will be mad, but I've wasted so much time with it as it is, that she'd probably let me). But I don't want to go to another modem unless I know that's what it is....

Thanks,
Dan

Don't know if it's config. or driver issue either. I know /dev/modem setup never worked for me. Either tty/s0, or s1 for my external serial modem. I picked up mine from a thrift store very cheap. EBay has them fairly cheap too. Have you tried the Mepis/Ubuntu forums for help with this modem?

No, I haven't. I posted in ubuntuforums.org a couple of times, though, but no takers. But I don't think that it's a ubuntu issue. I just did a reinstall of slack, and tried it from there, with identical results. Basically, it gets to launching pppd, on ppp0, and gets to where it sends LCP (whatever that is) requests, and times out after waiting for a minute or minute and a half, then terminates the modem.

That's using wvdial, and in slack, ppp-on (a different setup than in ubuntu), etc. I just don't get it. Either the modem drivers are lacking something at this point, or, I'm still not set up right.

Thanks for the help. I never could get the modem to work, so I got mad and went to Office Depot and purchased one of their serial external modems. I was online within 15 seconds. Turns out it was obviously a driver/modem issue, not my setup. Not to mention I was able to return the modem to CompUSA that I was fighting with...I spent 40.00 for that modem, and I was looking at 15.00 more for the driver, so 55.00. I got the external for 52.00, so I still made out just a tad. Plus I know I'll never have to worry about it again (as long as I have dialup, anyway).