[SLUG] Error Message!

[Jamie]

On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 12:45, Mark Feather wrote:
> Alistair has failed to mention that there is an error message in his  error log  that says that he has a script failure i  cannot remember the exact words but i think it said "Connection Script Failed"  correct me if I'm wrong Alistair.
> 
> Mark

On my machine, if I look in /var/log/messages I get:

Dec  2 20:42:46 jasmin pppd[533]: pppd 2.4.1 started by jay, uid 1000
Dec  2 20:42:47 jasmin chat[534]: abort on (BUSY)
Dec  2 20:42:47 jasmin chat[534]: abort on (NO CARRIER)
Dec  2 20:42:47 jasmin chat[534]: abort on (VOICE)
Dec  2 20:42:47 jasmin chat[534]: abort on (NO DIALTONE)
Dec  2 20:42:47 jasmin chat[534]: abort on (NO DIAL TONE)
Dec  2 20:42:47 jasmin chat[534]: abort on (NO ANSWER)
Dec  2 20:42:47 jasmin chat[534]: abort on (DELAYED)
Dec  2 20:42:47 jasmin chat[534]: send (ATZ^M)
Dec  2 20:42:47 jasmin chat[534]: expect (OK)
Dec  2 20:42:47 jasmin chat[534]: ATZ^M^M
Dec  2 20:42:47 jasmin chat[534]: OK
Dec  2 20:42:47 jasmin chat[534]:  -- got it 
Dec  2 20:42:47 jasmin chat[534]: send (ATDT08089933000^M)
Dec  2 20:42:48 jasmin chat[534]: expect (CONNECT)
Dec  2 20:42:48 jasmin chat[534]: ^M
Dec  2 20:43:13 jasmin chat[534]: ATDT08089933000^M^M
Dec  2 20:43:13 jasmin chat[534]: CONNECT
Dec  2 20:43:13 jasmin chat[534]:  -- got it 
Dec  2 20:43:13 jasmin chat[534]: send (\d)
Dec  2 20:43:14 jasmin pppd[533]: Serial connection established.
Dec  2 20:43:14 jasmin pppd[533]: Using interface ppp0
Dec  2 20:43:14 jasmin pppd[533]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
Dec  2 20:43:16 jasmin pppd[533]: kernel does not support PPP filtering
Dec  2 20:43:16 jasmin kernel: PPP Deflate Compression module registered
Dec  2 20:43:17 jasmin pppd[533]: local  IP address 212.159.40.202
Dec  2 20:43:17 jasmin pppd[533]: remote IP address 194.74.71.174
Dec  2 20:43:17 jasmin pppd[533]: primary   DNS address 212.159.11.150
Dec  2 20:43:17 jasmin pppd[533]: secondary DNS address 212.159.13.150
Dec  2 21:01:26 jasmin -- MARK --

My ppp has died on me a number of times, sometimes it seems for no
reason at all. Sometimes it works on a reinstall, sometimes not.

What did you use to set up your ppp connection? I have sometimes
succeeded with kppp when gnome-ppp failed. Another option is WVDial 
(http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/mandrake/9.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/wvdial-1.42-4mdk.i586.html). Is your system dialing with CHAP or PAP? Chap uses a 'chat script' to negotiate the logon process, so maybe this is the script that is failing? Thankfully most ISP's use PAP, so try that.

Actually, before you do any of that, you could try this:

http://www.linux.net.nz/pppconfig/

Let us know how you get on.

Jamie