[H-GEN] ppp pleez..

[Robin & Andy McPherson-Bruce]

Anthony Towns wrote:

> What I would suggest trying is:
>
>         * force your modem to a lower speed. Start at 9600 and see if
> that
>           works. If not, try 2400. If it does, work slowly up until
> you
>           find something what doesn't work.

unlikely, i think - connect messages via minicom look promising (LAP-M,
V.42bis, rahrah..). the modem's a spirit viper 28.8 external (not the
identical internal which has never functioned correctly for me) and,
other than switching with the winbox modem (not tested (yet)), passes
all diagnostics.

>         * switch to a different serial port

not tested yet..

>         * switch to a different device for the same serial port
> (/dev/cua
>           instead of devttyS or vice-versa)

tested all applicable - /dev/modem (ln > /dev/cua1), dev/ttyS1,
/dev/cua1..

>         * switch from having ppp as a module, to compiling ppp into
> the
>           kernel. Or try running insmod ppp.o before up'ing your link.
>
>           (If you're already compiled into the kernel ignore this)

slhc & BSD-Comp are modules (compression loads at boot, no error
messages), ppp compiled in.. modules vers. is current, as are libc,
libg++, as is every fsckin' version-dependent package listed in bog
knows how many support docs.. 8~)

> I can't actually remember what I ended up doing to fix this. It may be
>
> on the lists somewhere, but I don't know.

quote fr. comp.os.linux.networking re: kernel/pppd development of ppp.c
-

'i'm normally a peaceful man, but i really do think i'm going to have to
kill somebody'

> Cheers,
> aj

'hanx!

andy b.