[Preston] Modem Troubles

[Horsley, Andy (UK)]

Dear Guy/Damian,

Many thanks for the suggestions. I got so confused with all the settings
that had I tried and which didn't work that I have now done a complete
re-install of Sarge so I am starting afresh. I will let you know if
using pppconfig solves the problem. The strange thing was that placing
noauth in the /etc/ppp/options file did stop the connection from
crashing. However the problem of resolving the URLs and actually
accessing the web pages did still exist. You could not even access a web
page by typing in its IP address directly.

Regards

Andy Horsley

-----Original Message-----
From: preston-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:preston-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Guy Heatley
Sent: 21 October 2005 06:03 PM
To: Preston and Lancashire Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [Preston] Modem Troubles


Instead of using Kppp you could try "pppconfig". This has a text
interface for set-up but is quite straightforward to use.

#apt-get install pppconfig

You may need to run it as root, and add your normal user to the "dialup"
group when it is configured.

I have had strange issues in the past with Kppp on Debian.

Check out the "noauth" option in /etc/ppp/options and this bug report:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=126406

I think this is probably what you have encountered...

--
Guy

On 10/18/05, Damian Myerscough <damian.myerscough at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  Try the following in your resolv.cof
>
>  195.92.195.95
>  195.92.195.94
>
>  also could you type route and paste the output.
>
>
> On 10/17/05, Matthew T. Atkinson <matthew at agrip.org.uk> wrote:
> > Does anyone have any ideas about the following?  This is being
> > posted on behalf of a friend...
> >
> > ``
> > I installed sarge at the weekend but I can't get my dial up working.
> >
> > I used Kppp to set up freeserve using knoppix and it worked fine.
> > The same settings with sarge don't. Using the same options as
> > knoppix in /etc/ppp/options does at least stop the connection from
> > crashing immediately with exit status 1.
> >
> > These are :
> >
> > asyncmap 0
> > noauth
> > crtscts
> > lock
> > hide-password
> > modem
> > noipdefault
> > passive
> > proxyarp
> > lcp-echo-interval 30
> > lcp-echo-failure 4
> > noipx
> >
> > /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/ppp/resolv.conf
> > Contains: nameserver 195.92.195.95
> >           nameserver 195.92.195.95
> >
> > At the moment the modem will stay connected to freeserve/wannadoo
> > but will not resolve any URLs so the web pages can't be found. Any
> > ideas? ''
> >
> > Help would be much appreciated!
> >
> > bye just now, best regards,
> >
> >
> > --
> > Matthew T. Atkinson <matthew at agrip.org.uk>
> >
> >
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