[Gllug] Can't connect to the Internet.

[Dermot Moynihan]

Actully, after some more research (mainly the Modem-HOWTO), this may be a 
modem thing rather than a wvdial thing. A suggestion that worked for 
somebody else was to power cycle the modem.
Anybody know how to do that?
Thanks
Dermot


At 20:37 10/11/02, you wrote:
>Anybody have any idea what being blacklisted by wvdial means? Any 
>ex-blacklistees  out there?
>I was quite happy all day occcasionally using wvdial to get me on the 
>Internet. Later on in the day I was unable to get on coz of onetel.net 
>being oversubscribed or something. Instead of a dial tone I get a drone 
>sound. Anyway I'd press Ctrl+C to disconnect and get rid of the drone and 
>then run wvdial again. I must have done this about five times when I 
>suddenly got a message saying "BLACKLISTED".
>Nothing I tried could get me beyond that message. It wouldn't dial 
>anymore. I tried logging on as root, as a different user. To no avail. 
>Switched hard/drives to use Windows and after the same performance (i.e. 
>droning) I finally got on after about 7 goes. 7 goes is about par for the 
>course with Onetel.net that's why I kept wvdial's nose to the metal. 
>Unfortunately, it's rebelled. My little knowledge tells me this is 
>probably a security thing. That's where my knowledge ends.
>I've rooted around on the Internet and found a little - the interesting 
>bits are in German. My prowess with that is on a par with my Linux knowledge.
>Any ideas? And maybe a suggestion as to how I can get wvdial to ignore the 
>number of consecutive times I ask it to dial out, at least until I 
>jettison onetel.net.
>Much appreciated
>Dermot
>
>
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