Hey there everone! I am going crazy trying to get my internet connection working. It worked before with kppp then recently I reinstalled slack and kppp didn´t work so I downloaded some dialing scripts to try out and one of them worked! So I was happy... now recently I have been trying and neither method works.

I connect then it does nothing for about 15-20 seconds and disconnects.

Mar 11 16:29:43 jimdaworm connect[1095]: Connected at 45333
Mar 11 16:29:43 jimdaworm pppd[842]: Serial connection established.
Mar 11 16:29:44 jimdaworm pppd[842]: Using interface ppp0
Mar 11 16:29:44 jimdaworm pppd[842]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem
Mar 11 16:30:11 jimdaworm pppd[1144]: Device modem is locked by pid 842
Mar 11 16:30:15 jimdaworm pppd[842]: Connection terminated.
Mar 11 16:30:15 jimdaworm disconnect[1196]: Hanging up modem...
Mar 11 16:30:23 jimdaworm pppd[842]: Exit.
Mar 11 16:30:49 jimdaworm connect[1205]: Initializing modem...
Mar 11 16:30:59 jimdaworm connect[1205]: Connecting to 908200020 [attempt 1/1]

When I was trying with KPPP I got exactly the same error as this guy was getting.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...attributes+x08

But I don´t use AOL and it worked fine before! Have I missed somthing out of my kernel or somthing strange?

Thanks for your time!
Adam

I think I will do it the tried and tested way.... format and reinstall. Probably one of these scripts I was trying out screwed somthing up.

So a re-install and use pppsetup.

Adam

Just installed Suse 9.0 (Checking it out) I was using all these gui tools (trying to get used to them) set up the connection and had EXACTLY the same problem!!

Had a bit of a deeper look into things and Suse runs Wvdial (Another dialer I tried)

The moral of the story for anyone desperate enough to be reading this is I set Wvdial to ´Dumb´ or ´Stupid´ log in mode and it connects fine.

Adam

Hmmm... I'd be curious to know what pid 842 was.... I would have tried to kill it after scoping it out in ps......

Hey jong357 now that you point that I too am interested...

How would I go about

(a) finding out what pid 842 is/was

(b) kill it?

I am foggy on manually managing pids but I do remember reading somthing ´controlling´ them.

Adam

I don´t know if you will be able to expalin it more simpily but this page I just found might be just the ticked I was looking for

http://docs.rinet.ru/LiSys/lsg20.htm

Adam

ps -aux
kill 842

Thanks jong357 thats all stuff I should know anyway... looks quite handly! For anyone reading this that link above seams to explain it pretty well

Adam

ps aux | grep 842

For those of us who don´t like manually serching for the numbers! I am only starting to realise how wicked grep is!

Adam

In KDE does KPPP send the proper commands to your modem? try to query your modem and see if that is the problem .. but I doubt it...

Hey ProtoformX its sending the right commands to my modem but I just gave it a go and it give me an error that ppp0 is missing!

I had a look and its not there in the /dev/ directory.

I am not really sure what makes it and when this ppp0 file... how and I put it back??

Oh yeah dialing with the pppsetup ppp-on and off still works fine.

Adam