Hello

I am a Linux newbie. I installed Mandrake 10.1 about a week ago on a spare computer. Everything went well with the install, and everything seems to be working great, other than I can not get on the internet. I have been searching the net (and these forums) for a couple days now trying to figure this out, but to no avail. I’ll try to supply as much information as possible, and obviously if you need any other info just let me know.

First of all, I have an external modem connected to COM 1. I use KDE as my desktop. I use a dialup service. My ISP is Dialup4Less. On their site, they have step by step instructions on how to setup an account with them on Linux. (They even have screen shots). Anyway, I configured Kppp exactly how they told me to. Here is the problem. When I hit connect, I hear my modem dial out and try to connect, but then - after about a minute - I get an error message saying: ‘Timeout expired while waiting for the ppp interface to come up!’

I know you’ll need as much info as possible so here goes:

First, I have the pppd timeout set for 60 secs (the highest possible)

The Login Script Debug Window says:

ATZ
OK

ATM1L1
OK

ATDT3042344788

CONNECT 115200





Here’s some output from the terminal.
(I su to root first by the way)


# route –n

kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface


# ifconfig –a

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:B5:09:82:C7
inet6 addr: fe80::20f:b5ff:fe09:82c7/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:378 (378.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x6000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:238 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:238 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:17642 (17.2 Kb) TX bytes:17642 (17.2 Kb)

sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)


# ifup ppp0 -- my modem dials out and tries to connect, and then nothing happens.


Does anybody have any ideas about this?

Thanks in advance.

post the contents of ifconfig after u are connected to the internet

there is no entry of ppp0 there

also u do not have entry for
route -n

run the command after u are connected to the internet

regards

What happens when you querry the modem in kppp?

When I querry the modem here is exactly the output:

ATI: 56000
ATI1: 042
ATI2:
ATI3: CX81802-V90
ATI4: 151012000 r3000111170000000
ATI5: B5
ATI6: 56DPF-PLL L8773A Rev 62.01/62.01
ATI7:


Also when the error message comes up, you can click a 'Details' button. Here is what it says:

jan 21 12:26:05 localhost pppd [4194]: pppd 2.4.2 started by colin, uid 501
jan 21 12:26:05 localhost pppd [4194]: terminating on signal 15
jan 21 12:26:05 localhost pppd [4194]: Exit


then about half way down it says: kppp's diagnosis (just guessing):

then under that it says: unable to provide help

thanks

I was checking out the instructions at Dialup4less and I would try changing the device to /dev/tty0 instead of /dev/modem.

since u r getting some results on query modem
i do not think u will be requiring to change to /dev/ttys4
u might be having a symlink form /dev/modem to /dev/ttys4 so there will not be any change for u

i once got such problem while on Fedora core 2 that was because of corrupted pppd package

u should try work on that

maybe reinstall the pppd package

regards