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by **Mr.Whit** » Fri, 20 Feb 1998 04:00:00

I'm having some trouble setting up my PPP in linux. I'm running Slakware
3.4. Problem is..the script doesn't seem to find my modem, but minicom will
find it..heh but I don't really know the commands for minicom cuz I just got
linux a couple days ago. i went through the pppsetup and got that all right,
and when I type in ppp-go it says +ACI-Connect Script Error+ACI-, this is after it
goes through when it should stop on what errors, such as busy, etc., it
displays the init string..but the modem doesn't make a sound..let alone dial
anything. If anyone could help it'd be much appreciated..Thanx,

Jeff
jnewland+AEA-earthlink.net

by **pfrede** » Fri, 20 Feb 1998 04:00:00

> I'm having some trouble setting up my PPP in linux. I'm running Slakware
> 3.4.

This one had me swinging for a few days, until I realized that a lot of stuff going
onwas shell script files!
Try to edit ppp-on and read it and determine the next script it calls, then check it
out too.
Say hi to George and Gracie for me. hehehehe (you'll know what that means when you
get there)
Make sure that everything jives, with your setup. My silly system kept calling
555-1212 because it was the placeholder in the script! It was driving me nutz!
I kept editing the configuration files that pppsetup made for me, and that didn't sem

to make a difference. I thought it was my modem init string, I had an ampersand in
there
and thought that maybe I wasn't escaping it correctly. But that wasn't it at all.
Now if I can only get my other system, with Caldera loaded into it to be a bit more
responsive.
And it says right on it "EXTEND your system to the WORLD" Yeah right!
Slackware rulz!
Oh boy, you really DO want help don't you?
Look at all of the cross postings this is gonna make, OK, this time....
But you make me feel like such a SPAMmer!

Posted from Slackware 3.4

by **hori** » Sat, 21 Feb 1998 04:00:00

> I'm having some trouble setting up my PPP in linux. I'm running Slakware
> 3.4. Problem is..the script doesn't seem to find my modem, but minicom will
> find it..heh but I don't really know the commands for minicom cuz I just got
> linux a couple days ago. i went through the pppsetup and got that all right,
> and when I type in ppp-go it says +ACI-Connect Script Error+ACI-, this is after it
> goes through when it should stop on what errors, such as busy, etc., it
> displays the init string..but the modem doesn't make a sound..let alone dial
> anything. If anyone could help it'd be much appreciated..Thanx,

> Jeff
> jnewland+AEA-earthlink.net

I'd suggest reading the PPP-HOWTO and the ISP-Hookup-HOWTO in /usr/doc/faq/howto.

--

"Night brings bad dreams/Bad dreams and guillotines."
-- "Beheaded", The Offspring

by **Roy Schelker** » Mon, 23 Feb 1998 04:00:00

> I'm having some trouble setting up my PPP in linux. I'm running Slakware
> 3.4. Problem is..the script doesn't seem to find my modem, but minicom will
> find it..heh but I don't really know the commands for minicom cuz I just got

Hi!

I'm fairly new to this too, installed Slackware 3.3 a few weeks ago. As
a matter of fact, at the time of this writing, I succeeded in connecting
to my ISP for the first time using Linux! *GRIN*

To tell you the truth, I don't know too much about the subject of
PPP-connections at this moment, but I did learn some things that you
seem to be struggling with also.

First, you should look at the symbolic link in /dev and see if
/dev/modem points to /dev/cuax or /dev/ttySx (where x is the
port-number). I had a similar problem because Minicom looked at
/dev/ttyS1 and my /dev/modem was linked to /dev/cua1... My PPP-script
looked at the wrong place... at I restored the sym.link and it worked!

Also, check if you have no lockfile in /var/lock, I had one of those in
there (LCK..CUA1) and it didn't work a bit... ;-(

I hope I may have been of some help to you.

regards,

Roy