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me too.

hehehe... I am going coocoo too!
few days and nothing works... read Celeste's tutorial and few other howto's
...nothing.
I use cu -d -L dial and it dials and logs on to my ppp, but that's about it.
no aspppd is started, no nothing. it just sits there for few minutes, and the
modem hangs up.

can somebody tell me what is supposed to happen afte cu establishes connection?
what kind of things am I looking  for?
I used Uutry -r -x9 but could not see the log in /etc/log/asppd.log. am I missing
something?
I will try some more tonight...
thanx for any help.

        -Danny-

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After having suffered through this myself, I can offer some advice.
Looks like you have the right docs and readmes which is a good start. If
you can do a cu and dial the modem, than the hardware is talking.
Someone suggested to me that another thing to try is to "tip isp-name"
where isp-name is the name of the isp that is configured in the
/etc/uucp/* files. This will tell you if the System, Dialers, etc are
properly configured, though Uutry will do the same and show you on the
xterm what is happening. If this works, there is one other problem that
I had, and was posted here a week or two ago. If you have installed any
patches, that may be the problem. Patch number 104516-01 (or 104517-01)
will cause aspppd not to load with an error - basically device not
found. REMOVE THIS PATCH. Once I did that everything worked as it
should. With this patch installed, there is no way in H... you can get
it to work, no matter what you try.

   Hope this helps...

Dan

| I am going loco. After following the link that some kind folks have sent
| me, I have been trying to set up PPP for Solaris 2.5.1 for the past month
| now. I have read the links I have been sent, read every man page that
| relates to the string "PPP", done EXACTALLY what those both told me to do,
| and nothing works!!! Maybe I am just brain dead, I don't know. My question
| is, does anyone know of any books from Sun or otherwise that deals with
| this? I hear that Sun puts out a Network Administrator doc set, does
| anyone know if that would help? I am at the end of my rope here and would
| appreciate anyones opinion.

I have been tinkering with this myself.
I am using the EXCELLENT recipe at:

        http://WWW.ERC.MsState.Edu/~scarter/docs/solarisPPP-howto.html

You have to start aspppd (this is the default - /etc/init.d/asppp
should already be hardlinked to /etc/rc2.d/S47asppp).

With the right setup, attempts to get at the network will wake up
aspppd which will dial, connect etc and there you are.

If you continue to meet with no success after checking out that web
page get back in contact with me... I've still not got things quite right,
but I'm very close (i.e. I have made a PPP connection with this stuff, but
something in the routing is strangely bizarre).

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Back to the PPP problem and the patches. Someone mentioned removing patches
104516-01 and/or 104517-01. Which update were these drivers installed? DU5,6,7?

thanks

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