Re: ppp times out

Greetings William,

William Hanson wrote:
> I have a PC that until fairly recently could hook up to the local 
> dial-up ISP under any version of Linux I tried, and now can not.  It 
> still works under WinXP, but I want the better firewall safety of Linux. 
> The ISP *says* that they've changed nothing on their end, but I *know* 
> that nothing changed on mine.
> 
> It worked under Mandrake 7.x, 9.1, 10.1, Mandrake move, then Fedora Core 
> 2 (which is what I'm using now on that machine), using either kppp or 
> wvdial.  Now, none of them work; it always times out waiting for the ppp 
> daemon to start.
> 
> Here is the output of the ppp log file, using kppp:
> 
> Nov 19 09:56:39 monorail pppd[2828]: pppd 2.4.2 started by root, uid 0
> Nov 19 09:56:39 monorail pppd[2828]: using channel 2
> Nov 19 09:56:39 monorail pppd[2828]: Using interface ppp0
> Nov 19 09:56:39 monorail pppd[2828]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0
> Nov 19 09:56:39 monorail pppd[2828]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 
> 0x0> <magic 0x7f68e1e8> <pcomp> <accomp>]
> Nov 19 09:57:06 monorail last message repeated 9 times

Well the line above says that your computer tried 9 times to initiate the
LCP Negotiation but none of them got an answer so it times out .
The only thing that you could possibly do ( but that's shouldn't be the
issue here ) is lower the firewall .

> Nov 19 09:57:09 monorail pppd[2828]: Terminating on signal 15.
> Nov 19 09:57:09 monorail pppd[2828]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x2 "User 
> request"]
> Nov 19 09:57:12 monorail pppd[2828]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x3 "User 
> request"]
> Nov 19 09:57:15 monorail pppd[2828]: Connection terminated.
> Nov 19 09:57:15 monorail pppd[2828]: Exit.
> 

I guess you could sent the above log to the Technical Support department
of your ISP and ask them for assistance .

> When I use minicom, the ISP asks for login and password, then sends 
> multiple lines of gibberish

At the very second that you start seing this gibberish stuff you sould 
terminate
minicom leaving the port open ( The Key Sequence is Ctrl+A+Z , watchout it
is capital letters not small ones ). Then you run pppd .


, then times out.
> 
> When I use wvdial from the command line, I get:
> 
> Using wvdial:
> 
> root@monorail will]# wvdial
> --> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.53
> --> Initializing modem.
> --> Sending: ATZ
> ATZ
> OK
> --> Sending: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
> ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
> OK
> --> Modem initialized.
> --> Sending: ATDT375-2650
> --> Waiting for carrier.
> ATDT375-2650
> CONNECT 26400/ARQ
> --> Carrier detected.  Waiting for prompt.
> [1c] ` [1c] `  `||||`[1c]`[1c]|```
> --> Don't know what to do!  Starting pppd and hoping for the best.
> --> Starting pppd at Fri Nov 18 00:44:11 2005
> --> pid of pppd: 2986
> --> Disconnecting at Fri Nov 18 00:44:42 2005
> --> The PPP daemon has died: PPP negotiation failed (exit code = 10)
> --> man pppd explains pppd error codes in more detail.
> 
> 
> (I don't usually run as root; this is from when I'm troubleshooting.)


Try to run as root and see if something changes .




Kind Regards,
   Kostas