I've been having absurd amounts of difficulty trying to get dialup internet in Slackware 10. For some background, please refer to this thread:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=317013
The sysnopis is: I attempted to get Slackware to establish a sucessful dialup connection with my Worldnet account. First I tried a PCI winmodem with drivers supplied the mfg. It worked once, and after I rebooted, I could never get it to work again. I reinstalled Slack, reinstalled the drivers, and it worked once, and never again.
So I purchased a serial hardware modem (external), the Best Data. It worked once, then after a reboot never worked again. I reinstalled Slack (blanked the partitions and everything), and it still didn't work with a completely fresh install.
So I returned that modem, and bought a Creative Modem Blaster, plugged it in, and away it went. The next day, it began to behave in pretty much the same manner as all the other modems, which is basically where I am at this point, hardware wise.
During this process (on a good tip suggested by somebody who responded to my earlier thread), I called Worldnet tech support to see if they could pull up details concerning my login attempts. They could not, so I signed up with a local ISP who could.
The crux of that feedback is that, as far as my new ISP can tell, my dialup attempts are successful. The problem appears to be some sort of routing issue at my end.
The trouble is: I'm not using a firewall and I have not played with iptables in any manner.
root@darkstar:/home/saruman# iptables -L
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
root@darkstar:/home/saruman#
So I guess my question is: Are there any other mechanisms in Slackware other than iptables that deal with routing? Or perhaps that's not even what I should be focusing on: This business has been a trifle bewildering. I did not expect it to go on so long; I should have been taking notes.
Anyway, I still need help.
P.S: I have had no problems whatsoever with any of the various modems and ISPs in XP.
P.P.S: For what it's worth, there is some strange garbage in addition to the normal stuff that comes back in the kppp log window after I connect:
ATZ
OK
ATM1L1
OK
ATDT4125930110 `&b+IBC:1
CONNECT 57600
c
In addition, after about 20 seconds when the link invariably fails, the following error is returned:
Apr 28 11:32:32 darkstar pppd[1814]: Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP